Showing papers in "International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health in 2004"

TL;DR: It is concluded that a further reduction of the limit values proposed for 2005 will substantially reduce health risks due to particulate air pollution.

TL;DR: Boys showed higher concentrations than girls for all three metabolites of DEHP in urine and children aged 13-14 had the lowest mean concentrations of the secondary metabolites in urine, while house dust analyses revealed DEHP contamination of all samples.

TL;DR: Reference values for environmental pollutants related to the German population are established continuously by the Human Biomonitoring Commission of the German Federal Environmental Agency and new reference values were derived for arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury and platinum in blood or urine.

TL;DR: From June 2001, health questionnaires were distributed to people who complained about symptoms of ill health which they ascribed to exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF), to gain a better knowledge of the anxieties of complainants, to obtain hints of possible problems and of actions that should be taken to solve the problems.

TL;DR: Despite the requirements for provision of safe drinking water in municipal areas, in practice the water supplied in Vellore is contaminated and current household storage practices increase the level of contamination in at least two-thirds of households.

TL;DR: The internal exposure of nursery school children to DEHP is determined and compared to their parents' and teachers' exposure and the DEHP dose is estimated to be about twice as high as the dose taken up by adults.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that particle size and particle composition, respectively, were responsible for the observed biological effects of ultrafine model particles in a dose dependent manner.

TL;DR: The metabolic conversion of acrylamide to glycidamide as measured by haemoglobin adducts seems to occur to a similar extent in humans as in rats, which might indicate that the dose-response curve for acylamide is not linear.

TL;DR: The results indicate that THMs are mainly taken up over the respiratory pathway, and only about one third of the total burden is taken upover the skin.

TL;DR: The gram-negative coccobacillus now designated as Yersinia pestis has been discovered as the causative agent of plague in this Hong Kong outbreak, and its detailed role in the transmission of plague has been found and experimentally verified.

TL;DR: A number of studies are methodically flawed drawing inaccurate conclusions as to the safety of dental amalgam, considering the newest findings on mercury toxicity and metabolism.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that cellular response, and particularly macrophage activation and death, is mediated by strong interactions between silanol patches and some cell membrane components, but inhibited when the surface of the particle is modified by the presence of aluminium ions, surface carbonates and other metal contaminants.

TL;DR: Exposure of pupils to PCB in indoor air of the contaminated school caused increased blood concentrations of lower chlorinated congeners and the detected excess body burden was very low indicating no additional health risk.

TL;DR: More standardized laboratory assays and increased sample size studies involving subjects with various level of exposure to alcohol and smoking are needed to better establish the role of these factors in male infertility.

TL;DR: The results do not confirm that children and adolescents will have higher exposures to acrylamide than adults, and practical suggestions to lower the risk of acRYlamide exposure by food without decreasing the quality of the nutrition in the diet are given.

TL;DR: It appears that the biomarker investigations did not provide consistent observations, and it is clear that the inconsistencies are probably caused by the use of populations and biomarkers that are not appropriate for investigating the repair activities of the genes.

TL;DR: The majority judged neither minimizing nor excluding tap water as practicable health preventive behaviour pattern in the long run, which underline the relevance of health care preventive measures for the most sensitive groups.

TL;DR: Threshold effects in the range of 15 - > or = 120 microg can be demonstrated for the discriminant vector TNF alpha, i.e. over 4 steps of dose doubling, thus confirming the concept of the vector model.

TL;DR: The study defined the mould levels in children's rooms, but did not find an association with allergic history of the children or their sensitization rate.

TL;DR: It is concluded that quartzes do not cause strand breaks without concomitant cell toxicity and a sufficient in vitro concentration of > 40 micrograms/cm2 can only be reached in vivo with instillation of massive doses (> 100 mg).

TL;DR: The concentration of ergosterol in building materials was found to be a suitable indicator to estimate fungal biomass and was tested in two case studies on the spatial distribution of fungi on damp walls and irregular distributions were found.

TL;DR: It is concluded that 1- and 2-naphthol levels in urine are suitable for human biomonitoring of the naphthalene exposure in environmental medicine.

TL;DR: There were two independent episodes of self limiting VRE outbreaks and transmission on the ward is highly probable, and PFGE revealed that both outbreaks were caused by two different clones.

TL;DR: The use or drinking of H. pylori contaminated well water appears associated with the acquisition of a H.pylori infection, based on a relatively small and inhomogeneous population sample and should be repeated to confirm the results.

TL;DR: Questions addressing noise exposure and hearing loss might be a useful alternative means for screening subjects exposed to high noise level and those with hearing loss for the purpose of designing and implementing hearing conservation program in industries where facilities for an objective assessment of noise Exposure and Hearing loss are not available.

TL;DR: Exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOC) may enhance neurogenic inflammation with concomitant enhancement of histamine-induced responses in patients with self-reported multiple chemical sensitivity.

TL;DR: Investigation of in-home environmental health risks associated with planned and unplanned growth in peri-urban communities (neighborhoods) of a rapidly growing city in Northern Mexico found that providing adequate housing infrastructure appears to provide a number of important benefits to health and behavior beyond the simple provision of additional amenities in the home.

TL;DR: Mercury and arsenic have been measured in urine samples and HCB, DDE and PCBs in blood samples of children from Aralsk and Akchi, Kazakhstan and concentrations were lower than reference values from Germany.

TL;DR: Only an interdisciplinary structure including medical, psychiatric and environmental expertise is likely to adequately diagnose and advise persons with environmentally related symptoms.

TL;DR: The data obtained suggest that human hair could be used to identify lead exposure in epidemiological surveys and a positive association was found between Pb in hair and smoking in men.