A5050750812- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
- Chemical Safety and Risk Management
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Heavy metals in environment
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
2018-2021
Rio de Janeiro Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology
2018-2020
Public Health Institute
2019-2020
As a developing country, Brazil presents wide range of environmental risks that can constitute hazards to child health. The country also different socio-economic-cultural conditions could be responsible for determining vulnerability and susceptibility levels the population, which potentiate effects pollutants. Rio Birth Cohort Study (PIPA project) is prospective maternal-infant health study, hosted in city de Janeiro (Southeastern Brazil), designed investigate separate combined chemical...
This study aims to investigate alterations in childhood development associated exposure environmental pollutants, from pregnancy until the age of 4. Its core hypotheses are: 1) chemical pollutants determines fetus developmental alterations, birth adverse health effects, and child's neuromotor cognitive deficits; 2) these effects are modulated by interaction with sociocultural environment genetic patterns; 3) violence, as a chronic stressor, alters susceptibility on children's...
Background/Aim:Environmental exposure to heavy metals in urban areas has been associated with adverse birth outcomes such as spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, preterm birth, low weight, small for gestational age and lower head circumference. To evaluate prenatal test viability a cohort study, pilot study was conducted newborns at the School Maternity of Federal University Rio de Janeiro (ME-UFRJ).The aim this is interest Public Health (Lead, Mercury, Arsenic Cadmiun) an area.Methods: During...
PDS 62: Chemicals and metals: exposure biomarkers, Johan Friso Foyer, Floor 1, August 28, 2019, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Background/Aim: To evaluate environmental prenatal exposures in urban areas to test viability for a Rio Birth Cohort Study of Environmental Exposure Childhood Development (PIPA Project), pilot study was conducted from October 2017 2018. The aim this the lead an area Municipality de Janeiro-Brazil, correlate levels maternal blood umbilical cord analyze association between level...
PDS 70: Green space, Johan Friso Foyer, Floor 1, August 28, 2019, 1:30 PM - 3:00 Background/Aim: The PIPA project is a prospective cohort study, which will be initiated in the city of Rio de Janeiro (Southeastern Brazil), with aim investigating environmental pollutant effects on maternal-child health. A pilot study was carried out between September 2017 and 2018, totaling 142 enrolled pregnant women, ensuing 135 (95%) births collection umbilical cord mother blood samples, both newborn urine...
Background/Aim: The PIPA project is a prospective cohort study, which will be initiated in the city of Rio de Janeiro (Southeastern Brazil), with aim investigating environmental pollutant effects on maternal-child health. study collect social, demographic, and health information, addition to biological samples from parents newborns, evaluate metals, pesticides, plasticizer exposure. All newborns followed for 48 months, their landmarks physical, neurological, psychological, cognitive...