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Environmental Illness - References

Citations

  1. German JA, Michael B (2002). Environmental control of allergic diseases. American Family Physician, 66(3): 421–426.

  2. Miller YE (2004). Lung cancer and other pulmonary neoplasms. In L Goldman, D Ausiello, eds., Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 22nd ed., pp. 1201–1208. Philadelphia: Saunders.

  3. Pearson TA, et al. (2002). AHA guidelines for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and stroke: 2002 update. Circulation, 106(3): 388–391.

  4. Carter W, et al. (2000). Taking an Exposure History (ATSDR Publication No. ATSDR-HE-CS-2001-0002). Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Available online: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HEC/CSEM/exphistory.

  5. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2007). Smoke-free homes program. Available online: http://www.epa.gov/smokefree.

  6. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2007). Health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke. Available online: http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/healtheffects.html.

  7. Jacob B, et al. (2002). Indoor exposure to molds and allergic sensitization. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(7): 647–653.

  8. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (1997, reaffirmed 2006). Toxicological profile for trichloroethylene: Public health statement for trichloroethylene. Available online: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/phs19.html.

  9. Schreiber JS, et al. (2002). Apartment residents' and day care workers' exposures to tetrachloroethylene and deficits in visual contrast sensitivity. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(7): 655–664.

  10. Field RW, et al. (2000). Residential radon gas exposure and lung cancer: The Iowa radon lung cancer study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 151(11): 1091–1102.

  11. Arcury TA, Quandt SA (2003). Pesticides at work and at home: Exposure of migrant farmworkers. Lancet, 362(9400): 2021.

  12. Sanborn MD, et al. (2002). Identifying and managing adverse environmental health effects: 4. Pesticides. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 166(11): 1431–1436.

  13. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2004). What you need to know about mercury in fish and shellfish: 2004 EPA and FDA advice for women who might become pregnant, women who are pregnant, nursing mothers, young children. Available online: http://www.epa.gov/ost/fishadvice/advice.html.

Other Works Consulted

  • Crinnion WJ (2006). Environmental medicine. In JE Pizzorno Jr, MT Murray, eds., Textbook of Natural Medicine, 3rd ed., pp. 339–353. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.

  • Hu H (2005). Heavy metal poisoning. In DL Kasper et al., eds., Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 16th ed., vol. 1, pp. 2577–2580. New York: McGraw-Hill.

  • Ruder AM (2006). Potential health effects of occupational chlorinated solvent exposure. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1076: 207–227.

  • Seizer FE (2005). Environmental lung diseases. In DL Kasper et al., eds., Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 16th ed., vol. 1, pp. 1521–1528. New York: McGraw-Hill.

  • Swan SH, et al. (2005). Decrease in anogenital distance among male infants with prenatal phthalate exposure. Environmental Health Perspectives, 113(8): 1056–1061.

  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Smoking and Health (2006). The health consequences of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke: A report of the Surgeon General. Available online: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke.

  • Veraldi A, et al. (2006). Immunotoxic effects of chemicals: A matrix for occupational and environmental epidemiological studies. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 49(12): 1046–1055.

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2005). Third National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals 2005: Executive summary (NCEH Publication No. 05–0725). Available online: http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport.

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Last Updated: November 01, 2007
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