The Challenge of Preventing Environmentally Related Disease in Young Children: Community-Based Research in New York City

Rates of developmental and respiratory diseases are disproportionately high in underserved, minority populations such as those in New York City's Washington Heights, Harlem, and the South Bronx. Blacks and Latinos in these neighborhoods represent high risk groups for asthma, adverse birth outcomes, ...impaired development, and some types of cancer. The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health in Washington Heights uses molecular epidemiologic methods to study the health effects of urban indoor and outdoor air pollutants on children, prenatally and postnatally, in a cohort of over 500 African-American and Dominican (originally from the Dominican Republic) mothers and newborns. Extensive data are collected to determine exposures to particulate matter < 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter ( PM2.5), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), diesel exhaust particulate (DEP), nitrogen oxide, nonpersistent pesticides, home allergens (dust mite, mouse, cockroach), environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), and lead and other metals. Biomarkers, air sampling, and clinical assessments are used to study the effects of these exposures on children's increased risk for allergic sensitization, asthma and other respiratory disorders, impairment of neurocognitive and behavioral development, and potent Ausführliche Beschreibung Beschreibung ausblenden

1. Person:	Perera, Frederica P.
Weitere Personen:	Illman, Susan M. verfasserin; Kinney, Patrick L. verfasserin; Whyatt, Robin M. verfasserin; Kelvin, Elizabeth A. verfasserin; Shepard, Peggy verfasserin; Evans, David verfasserin; Fullilove, Mindy verfasserin; Ford, Jean verfasserin; Miller, Rachel L. verfasserin; Meyer, Ilan H. verfasserin; Rauh, Virginia A. verfasserin
Quelle:	in Environmental health perspectives : EHP Vol. 110, No. 2 (2002), p. 197-204 Weitere Artikel
Format:	Online-Artikel
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2002
Beschreibung:	Online-Ressource
Schlagworte:	research-article Asthma Cancer Children Development Environmental health Prenatal Prevention Susceptibility
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