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Husband smoking is associated with Wife's thyrotropin abnormality: A population-based cohort study among Chinese reproductive-aged women
CONCLUSION: Husband smoking was associated with wives' subnormal thyrotropin and supranormal thyrotropin, and cessation of husband smoking could reduce the odds of thyrotropin abnormality. Couple-focused smoking intervention should be developed to reduce the burden of asymptomatic thyroid disease in females.PMID:38354683 | DOI:10.1016/j.ijheh.2024.114338 (Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health)
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - February 14, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Siyu Wu Ying Yang Yunzhi Chen Wenlu Xie Jiaxin Huang Meiya Liu Youhong Liu Die Xu Xinyi Lyu Hanbin Wu Jueming Lei Chuanyu Zhao Ya Zhang Hongguang Zhang Yuan He Zuoqi Peng Yuanyuan Wang Haiping Shen Qiaomei Wang Yiping Zhang Donghai Yan Long Wang Haixia Gu Source Type: research

Associations of parental preconception and maternal pregnancy urinary phthalate biomarker and bisphenol-a concentrations with child eating behaviors
CONCLUSIONS: In this cohort, higher maternal and paternal preconception urinary concentrations of some phthalate biomarkers were associated with increased food approaching behavior scores and decreased food avoiding behavior scores, which could lead to increased adiposity in children.PMID:38350281 | DOI:10.1016/j.ijheh.2024.114334 (Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health)
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - February 13, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Jordana Leader Lidia M ínguez-Alarcón Paige L Williams Jennifer B Ford Ramace Dadd Olivia Chagnon Emily Oken Antonia M Calafat Russ Hauser Joseph M Braun Source Type: research

Metal mixtures and oral health among children and adolescents in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2017-2020
DISCUSSION: Increased exposure to a metal mixture was significantly related to poorer objective and subjective oral health outcomes among U.S. children and adolescents. These are among the first findings showing that metal mixtures are a significant contributor to poor oral health.PMID:38330728 | DOI:10.1016/j.ijheh.2024.114335 (Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health)
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - February 8, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: A A Akinkugbe V Midya J Duffy J Landero R O Wright R J Wright Source Type: research

Preparing schools for future pandemics: Insights on water, sanitation and hygiene solutions from the Brazilian school reopening policies
Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2024 Feb 7;257:114325. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2024.114325. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPost-COVID-19, schools urgently need to enhance infection control and prevention (IPC) measures, including water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), to prepare for future outbreaks and pandemics. Particularly in Brazil, that is of particular concern, as students are still recovering from the 20th longest school closure in the world. Hence, the current study had two goals: (i) to describe WASH solutions outlined in policies released at the federal, state, and capital city levels in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemi...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - February 8, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Kasandra I H M Poague Justine I Blanford Javier A Mart ínez Carmen Anthonj Source Type: research

What did we learn about changing behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic? A systematic review of interventions to change hand hygiene and mask use behaviour
CONCLUSION: there is a substantial knowledge gap, particularly in low resource and crisis settings, and available evidence is of low quality. We must address these gaps to enable evidence-based practice and strengthen pandemic preparedness and resilience. Future research should include another systematic review which includes grey literature and different languages, as well as more robust evaluations which use implementation research to explore the impact of multiple BCTs in low resource and crisis settings. Evaluations should include assessments of acceptability, practicability, affordability and equity.PMID:38325104 | DO...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - February 7, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: India Hotopf Fiona Majorin Sian White Source Type: research

Social barriers to safe sanitation access among housed populations in the United States: A systematic review
DISCUSSION: Barriers pertained to lack of access to centralized wastewater treatment system, inadequate repair or replacement of septic systems, and lack of safely managed onsite sanitation systems. We discuss the intersectionality of the barriers, the underlying policy and history that leads to them, and make recommendations to address inequitable access to safe sanitation. Legislation and policy must be critically reviewed at national, state, and local levels to limit or eliminate ability for utilities to be extended on the basis of a community's income and property values or racial makeup. Policy recommendations also in...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - January 31, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Amy Kryston Courtney G Woods Musa Manga Source Type: research

A plausibility database summarizing the level of evidence regarding the hazards induced by the exposome on children health
Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2024 Mar;256:114311. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2023.114311. Epub 2024 Jan 24.ABSTRACTChildhood diseases correspond to major public health issues. A large number of studies using different approaches provide evidence regarding effects of environmental exposures, encompassed in the exposome, on children's health. We aimed to summarize the overall level of evidence (LoE) from all streams of evidence regarding exposome effects on child health. For 88 selected chemical and urban factors, we retrieved the conclusions of agency reports or literature reviews published between 2015 and 2021 regarding effects on...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - January 25, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Colzin Stacy Cr épet Amélie Wies Blanche Rocabois Audrey Sanchez Margaux Perreau Simon Jean Julien Redaelli Matteo Kortenkamp Andreas Rousselle Christophe Vrijheid Martine Nieuwenhuijsen Mark Slama R émy Angeli Karine Source Type: research

Prenatal exposure to poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances and postpartum depression in women with twin pregnancies
CONCLUSIONS: The first study of women with twin pregnancies suggests that prenatal exposure to PFAS increases PPD risk up to 6 months postpartum. Twin pregnant women should receive long-term follow-up after delivery and extensive social support.PMID:38271819 | DOI:10.1016/j.ijheh.2024.114324 (Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health)
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - January 25, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Liqin Hu Hong Mei Xiaonan Cai Lulu Song Qiao Xu Wenqi Gao Dan Zhang Jieqiong Zhou Chen Sun Yi Li Feiyan Xiang Youjie Wang Aifen Zhou Han Xiao Source Type: research

An investigation of 3M Cordova, IL production worker's per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances biomonitoring results and mortality experience
Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2024 Mar;256:114321. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2024.114321. Epub 2024 Jan 20.ABSTRACTPer- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a wide-ranging group of chemicals that have been used in a variety of polymer and surfactant applications. While 3M Cordova, Illinois was not one of 3M's primary manufacturing facilities for the legacy long-chain PFAS (PFOS, PFOA, PFHxS), it has been a major manufacturing site for short-chain PFAS (compounds that are or may degrade to PFBS or PFBA). The purpose of this research focused on: 1) an analysis of biomonitoring data of employees and retirees, and 2) an analysis o...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - January 20, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Kara L Andres Geary W Olsen Ryan M Krisko Matthew C Nunnally Rebecca R Boeding Karyn L Leniek Oyebode A Taiwo Source Type: research

Healthy lifestyle and essential metals attenuated association of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with heart rate variability in coke oven workers
In this study, we measured urinary metals and PAHs as well as HRV, and constructed a healthy lifestyle score in 1267 coke oven workers. Linear regression models were used to explore the association of healthy lifestyle score and essential metals with HRV, and interaction analysis was performed to investigate the potential interaction between healthy lifestyle score, essential metals, and PAHs on HRV. Mean age of the participants was 41.9 years (84.5% male). Per one point higher healthy lifestyle score was associated with a 2.5% (95% CI, 1.0%-3.9%) higher standard deviation of all normal to normal intervals (SDNN), 2.1% (95...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - January 18, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Kang Liu Yansen Bai Degang Wu Zhaorui Zhang Xiaojing Liao Haimei Wu Qifei Deng Source Type: research