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Frederica P. Perera
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 411
Citations - 33903
Frederica P. Perera is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Environmental exposure & Pregnancy. The author has an hindex of 95, co-authored 389 publications receiving 29553 citations. Previous affiliations of Frederica P. Perera include Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai & Natural Resources Defense Council.
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Pollution from Fossil-Fuel Combustion is the Leading Environmental Threat to Global Pediatric Health and Equity: Solutions Exist
TL;DR: The purpose of this commentary is to briefly review the data on the health impacts of fossil-fuel pollution, highlighting the neurodevelopmental impacts, and to briefly describe available means to achieve a low-carbon economy, and some examples of interventions that have benefited health and the economy.
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Prenatal environmental exposures, epigenetics, and disease.
TL;DR: The findings discussed indicate that identification of environmental chemicals that dysregulate the prenatal epigenome should be a priority in health research and disease prevention.
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Seven-Year Neurodevelopmental Scores and Prenatal Exposure to Chlorpyrifos, a Common Agricultural Pesticide
Virginia Rauh,Srikesh Arunajadai,Megan K. Horton,Frederica P. Perera,Lori Hoepner,Dana B. Barr,Robin M. Whyatt +6 more
TL;DR: Evidence of deficits in Working Memory Index and Full-Scale IQ as a function of prenatal CPF exposure at 7 years of age is reported, important in light of continued widespread use of CPF in agricultural settings and possible longer-term educational implications of early cognitive deficits.
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Effect of prenatal exposure to airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on neurodevelopment in the first 3 years of life among inner-city children.
Frederica P. Perera,Virginia Rauh,Robin M. Whyatt,Wei-Yann Tsai,Wei-Yann Tsai,Deliang Tang,Diurka Diaz,Lori Hoepner,Dana B. Barr,Yi Hsuan Tu,David Camann,Patrick L. Kinney +11 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that environmental PAHs at levels recently encountered in New York City air may adversely affect children’s cognitive development at 3 years of age, with implications for school performance.
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Prenatal Insecticide Exposures and Birth Weight and Length among an Urban Minority Cohort
Robin M. Whyatt,Virginia Rauh,Dana B. Barr,David Camann,Howard Andrews,Robin Garfinkel,Lori Hoepner,Diurka Diaz,Jessica Dietrich,Andria Reyes,Deliang Tang,Patrick L. Kinney,Frederica P. Perera +12 more
TL;DR: Prenatal chlorpyrifos exposures have impaired fetal growth among this minority cohort and that diazinon exposures may have contributed to the effects, and findings support recent regulatory action to phase out residential uses of the insecticides.