Cynthia L. Curl

TL;DR: Increased concentrations of PM2.5 and traffic-related air pollution within metropolitan areas, in ranges commonly encountered worldwide, are associated with progression in coronary calcification, consistent with acceleration of atherosclerosis, which supports the case for global efforts of pollution reduction in prevention of cardiovascular diseases.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that the take-home exposure pathway contributes to residential pesticide contamination in agricultural homes where young children are present is supported.

TL;DR: The dose estimates suggest that consumption of organic fruits, vegetables, and juice can reduce children's exposure levels from above to below the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's current guidelines, thereby shifting exposures from a range of uncertain risk to arange of negligible risk.

TL;DR: Using these models, MESA Air will be the first large epidemiologic study to incorporate variation in residential Finf into an exposure assessment, and intuitive models that can predict Finf using easily obtained variables are developed.

TL;DR: This cohort provides vast exposure heterogeneity in ranges currently experienced and permitted in most developed nations, and the air monitoring and modeling methods employed will provide individual estimates of exposure that incorporate residence-specific infiltration characteristics and participant-specific time-activity patterns.