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Contribution of rooftop rainwater harvesting to climate adaptation in the city of Hannover: Water quality and health issues of rainwater storage in cisterns and ponds
This study sheds light on the largely unreported physicochemical and microbiological quality of private roof-harvested rainwater (RHRW). We aimed to identify the physicochemical and microbiological characteristics of RHRW, explore potential correlations between them and assess probable health risks associated with recreational interactions of children with the water. RHRW was collected from cisterns and ponds located in an inner courtyard in Hanover, Germany. Physicochemical parameters were measured on site and samples were collected once a month in two campaigns in 2020 and 2021. Escherichia coli concentrations ranged fro...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - January 7, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Estefania Carpio-Vallejo Urda D üker Jessica Waldowski Regina Nogueira Source Type: research

Prenatal air pollution exposure and childhood obesity: Effect modification by maternal fruits and vegetables intake
CONCLUSIONS: Exposure to fine particulate matter during pregnancy was not associated with obesity-related measures at 4 and 6 years. However, only among offspring of mothers who consumed inadequate FV, we observed higher obesity-related measures at 6 years. Our results indicate that mothers' diet during pregnancy may play a role in the relationship between air-pollution and childhood obesity.PMID:38183793 | DOI:10.1016/j.ijheh.2023.114314 (Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health)
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - January 6, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Katerina Margetaki Vicky Bempi Eirini Michalaki Theano Roumeliotaki Minas Iakovides Euripides Stephanou Manolis Kogevinas Lida Chatzi Marina Vafeiadi Source Type: research

Gas cooking indoors and respiratory symptoms in the ECRHS cohort
CONCLUSION: This multi-centre international study, using repeat data, suggested using gas cookers in the home was more strongly associated than electric cookers with certain respiratory symptoms in adults. As gas cooking is common, these results may play an important role in population respiratory health.PMID:38183794 | DOI:10.1016/j.ijheh.2023.114310 (Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health)
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - January 6, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Holly Pan Debbie Jarvis James Potts Lidia Casas Dennis Nowak Joachim Heinrich Judith Garcia Aymerich Isabel Urrutia Jesus Martinez-Moratalla Jos é-Antonio Gullón Antonio Pereira-Vega Chantal Raherison Sebastien Chanoine Pascal Demoly B énédicte Leynae Source Type: research

Genetic susceptibility to low-level lead exposure in men: Insights from ALAD polymorphisms
This study explored associations between ten selected ALAD SNPs with Pb concentrations in blood (BPb) and urine (UPb) among 281 men aged 18-49 years from Slovenia, including 20 individuals residing in a Pb-contaminated area. The geometric mean (range) of BPb and UPb were 19.6 (3.86-84.7) μg/L and 0.69 (0.09-3.82) μg/L SG, respectively. The possible genetic influence was assessed by examining SNP haplotypes, individual SNPs, and the combination of two SNPs using multiple linear regression analyses. While no significant associations were found for haplotypes, the presence of variant alleles of rs1800435 and rs1805312 resul...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - January 3, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Anja Stajnko Ne ža Palir Janja Snoj Tratnik Darja Mazej Alenka Se šek Briški Agneta Annika Runkel Milena Horvat Ingrid Falnoga Source Type: research

Relation of prenatal and postnatal PM < sub > 2.5 < /sub > exposure with cognitive and motor function among preschool-aged children
Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2024 Jan 2;256:114317. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2023.114317. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe literature informing susceptible periods of exposure on children's neurodevelopment is limited. We evaluated the impacts of pre- and postnatal fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure on children's cognitive and motor function among 1303 mother-child pairs in the Spanish INMA (Environment and Childhood) Study. Random forest models with temporal back extrapolation were used to estimate daily residential PM2.5 exposures that we averaged across 1-week lags during the prenatal period and 4-week lags during the p...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - January 3, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Kristina W Whitworth Alison M Rector-Houze Wei-Jen Chen Jesus Ibarluzea Michael Swartz Elaine Symanski Carmen Iniguez Aitana Lertxundi Antonia Valentin Llucia Gonz ález-Safont Martine Vrijheid Monica Guxens Source Type: research

Short-term ambient temperature variations and incidence of preterm birth: A systematic review and meta-analysis
This study aimed to determine the short-term effects of ambient temperature variations exposures on the incidence of preterm birth (PTB) for each single lag day (lag0 to lag6) and cumulative lag days (lag0-1 to lag0-6) up to a week before birth. To find relevant publications, online databases, including Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus were searched with appropriate keywords and Mesh terms from their inception to October 25, 2023. Overall, the number of 39 observational studies with 12.5 million pregnant women and 700.000 cases of PTB met our eligibility criteria. The associations of temperature variations with the incid...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - January 3, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Masoud Khosravipour Farideh Golbabaei Source Type: research

Blood Pb levels are associated with prostate cancer prevalence among general adult males: Linking National Cancer Registry (2002-2017) and KNHANES (2008-2017) databases of Korea
Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2024 Jan 2;256:114318. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2023.114318. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Exposure to heavy metals may increase the risk of developing prostate cancer. However, these observations are often inconsistent and not based on clinically diagnosed cases.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association of lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and mercury (Hg) exposure with clinically determined prostate cancer cases among adult males in South Korea.METHODS: Metal biomonitoring data and cancer information from the general Korean population were extracted by linking National Cancer Center (NCC) cancer ...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - January 3, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yonju Nam Suhyun Park Ejin Kim Inae Lee Young Joo Park Tae-Yong Kim Min Joo Kim Shinje Moon Sangah Shin Ho Kim Kyungho Choi Source Type: research