Background Data measuring airborne pollutants, public health and environmental factors
are increasingly being stored and merged. These big datasets offer great potential, but also …

Climate change is a major risk factor for overall health, including reproductive health, and
well-being. Increasing temperatures, due mostly to increased greenhouse gases trapping …

Colorado is regularly impacted by long-range transport of wildfire smoke from upwind
regions. This smoke is a major source of ambient PM2. 5. Maternal exposure to total PM2. 5 …

Background: Half the world's population lives in urban areas. It is therefore important to
identify characteristics of the built environment that are beneficial to human health. Urban …

Background: Unconventional natural gas development has expanded rapidly. In
Pennsylvania, the number of producing wells increased from 0 in 2005 to 3,689 in 2013 …

Background Most studies have shown that maternal age is associated with birth weight.
However, the specific relationship between each additional year of maternal age and birth …

(1) Background: The developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) hypothesis links
adverse fetal exposures with developmental mal-adaptations and morbidity later in life …

Introduction Intrauterine growth restriction has been associated with exposure to air
pollution, but there is a need to clarify which sources and components are most likely …

The field of environmental health has been dominated by modeling associations, especially
by regressing an observed outcome on a linear or nonlinear function of observed covariates …

Abstract Background The Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation (TMLE) statistical data
analysis framework integrates machine learning, statistical theory, and statistical inference to …