A5006322699- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Noise Effects and Management
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Ovarian function and disorders
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity
- Heavy metals in environment
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Agriculture and Farm Safety
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
Baylor College of Medicine
2020-2025
Cohort (United Kingdom)
2024-2025
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
2013-2020
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
2008-2020
Southwest Center for Educational Excellence
2016-2020
University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas
2017-2020
Marko-Kolor (Poland)
2018
Whitworth University
2018
The University of Texas at San Antonio
2014-2016
The University of Texas at Austin
2010-2014
Perfluorinated compounds are ubiquitous pollutants; epidemiologic data suggest they may be associated with adverse health outcomes, including subfecundity. We examined subfecundity in relation to 2 perfluorinated compounds-perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).
Cancer is the second leading cause of death among U.S. children with few known risk factors. There increasing interest in role air pollutants, including benzene and 1,3-butadiene, etiology childhood cancers.Our goal was to assess whether census tracts highest or 1,3-butadiene ambient levels have increased lymphohematopoietic cancer incidence.Our ecologic analysis included 977 cases diagnosed from 1995-2004. We obtained Environmental Protection Agency's 1999 modeled estimates for 886...
Perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoic acid are perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) widely distributed in the environment. Previous studies of PFCs birth weight equivocal. The authors examined this association Norwegian Mother Child Cohort Study (MoBa), using data from 901 women enrolled 2003 to 2004 selected for a prior case-based study subfecundity. Maternal plasma samples were obtained around 17 weeks gestation. Outcomes included z scores, preterm birth, small gestational age, large...
Objective To assess associations between unconventional natural gas development (UGD) and perinatal outcomes. Methods We conducted a retrospective birth cohort study among 158,894 women with or fetal death from November 30, 2010-November 29, 2012 in the Barnett Shale, North Texas. constructed three UGD-activity metrics by calculating inverse distance-weighted sum of active wells within separate geographic buffers surrounding maternal residence: ≤½, 2, 10-miles. excluded if nearest well to...
Background: Studies of unconventional gas development (UGD) and preterm birth (PTB) have not presented risk estimates by well phase or trimester. Objective: We examined trimester-specific associations between UGD activity PTB. Methods: conducted a case–control study women with singleton births in the Barnett Shale area, Texas, from 30 November 2010 to 29 2012. individually age- race/ethnicity-matched five controls each PTB case (n=13,328) truncated controls' time at according matched case's...
The literature informing susceptible periods of exposure on children's neurodevelopment is limited. We evaluated the impacts pre- and postnatal fine particulate matter (PM
Pregnant women may be vulnerable to changes in ambient temperature and warming climates. Recent evidence suggests that increases are associated with placental abruption, a risk factor for stillbirth.
Abstract Background There is increasing concern regarding the potential adverse health effects of air pollution, particularly hazardous pollutants (HAPs). However, quantifying exposure to these problematic. Objective Our goal was explore utility kriging, a spatial interpolation method, for assessment in epidemiologic studies HAPs. We used benzene as an example and compared census tract-level kriged predictions estimates obtained from 1999 U.S. EPA National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA),...
Few data exist regarding anti-Müllerian hormone, a marker of ovarian reserve, in relation to environmental factors with potential toxicity.This analysis included 420 women from Limpopo, South Africa studied 2010-2011. Women were administered comprehensive questionnaires, and plasma concentrations hormone dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane determined. We used separate multivariable models examine the associations between natural log-transformed concentration (ng/ml) each lifestyle, reproductive,...
There is mixed evidence implicating prenatal exposure to particulate matter <2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5) the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and only one study has examined PM2.5 constituents, which vary with location because different emission sources. We conducted a retrospective cohort singleton live births Harris County, Texas from 2008 2013. With data Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), we spatially interpolated maternal exposures total speciated PM2.5,...
On Sunday, 17 March 2019, a fire erupted at the Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC, Deer Park, La Porte, TX, USA), resulting in large that blazed for several days. In response, we rapidly launched disaster response activities to monitor air pollutants (total volatile organic compounds (TVOCs), fine particulate matter (PM2.5), black carbon (BC), and ultra-fine particles (UFPs) during two affected communities. To assess immediate health effects residential quality, also pilot study, Park...
In August 2017, after Hurricane Harvey made landfall, almost 52 inches of rain fell during a three-day period along the Gulf Coast Region Texas, including Harris County, where Houston is located. County was heavily impacted with over 177,000 homes and buildings (approximately 12 percent all in county) experiencing flooding. The objective this study to measure 13 heavy metals soil residential areas assess cancer non-cancer risk for children adults floodwaters receded. Between September...
Background: Evidence of the association between fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) exposure and child neuropsychological function is equivocal. We examined early life PM in relation to motor function, attention, working memory childhood. Methods: used data from Spanish INfancia y Medio Ambiente Project, 2003–2008. Exposure (μg/m 3 was assessed using spatiotemporal land-use random forest models assigned based on residential address histories. Around age six, children completed finger tapping...
To examine the association between air pollution and diabetes prevalence in United States, 2002 to 2008.
Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is a method used to extract unconventional natural gas (UNG). Living near UNG operations has been associated with various health outcomes, but few have explored the association between and mental substance use. Our objective was evaluate metrics of residential well density/proximity illness use among pregnant individuals in Northeastern British Columbia, Canada.Individuals who gave birth at Fort St John hospital December 30, 2006 29, 2016 (n = 6278) were...
Few prior studies have explored windows of susceptibility to fine particulate matter (PM
Laboratory models support an inverse association between anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) and breast tumor development. Human studies are lacking; one study (N = 105 cases, 204 controls) with prospectively collected serum reported the opposite-an approximate 10-fold increase in cancer risk comparing fourth first quartile AMH levels. We investigated relation levels a case-control 452 902 nested within prospective Sister Study cohort of 50,884 women. At enrollment, participants were ages 35 to 54,...