Background Smoking tobacco increases the risk of respiratory disease in adults and
children, but communicating the magnitude of these effects in a scientific manner that is …

BACKGROUND: There is growing public awareness regarding the risk associated with poor
indoor air quality in the home and workplace. Because Americans spend approximately 22 …

This review summarizes the level of epidemiologic evidence for relationships between
prenatal and/or early life exposure to environmental chemical contaminants and fetal, child …

Objectives. We examined the relationships among maternal smoking in pregnancy, fetal
development, and the risk of asthma in childhood. Methods. We conducted a population …

Asthma is a multifactorial airway disease that arises from a relatively common genetic
background interphased with exposures to allergens and airborne irritants. The rapid rise in …

BACKGROUND: Accumulating evidence suggests that reduced duration of pregnancy
predicts increased risk of asthma, but the studies published have been inconsistent …

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a major risk factor for poor lung health in children.
Although parental smoking is the commonest source of ETS exposure to children, they are …

The human fetus, child, and adult may experience adverse health outcomes from parental or
childhood exposures to environmental toxicants. The fetus and infant are especially …

In developing countries, chemical mixtures within the vicinity of small-scale enterprises,
smelters, mines, agricultural areas, toxic waste disposal sites, etc., often present a health …

The Tenth Edition of Hunter's Diseases of Occupations has been fully revised and updated,
presenting all practitioners considering an occupational cause for a patient's condition with …