Published in Am J Epidemiol on February 01, 2002
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A population-based study of asthma, quality of life, and occupation among elderly Hispanic and non-Hispanic whites: a cross-sectional investigation. BMC Public Health (2005) 0.93
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Invited commentary: obesity and asthma--new perspectives, research needs, and implications for control programs. Am J Epidemiol (2002) 0.85
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Sex Disparity in Food Allergy: Evidence from the PubMed Database. J Allergy (Cairo) (2009) 0.83
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Adult-onset asthma becomes the dominant phenotype among women by age 40 years. the longitudinal CARDIA study. Ann Am Thorac Soc (2013) 0.82
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Association of Body Mass Index (BMI) with Lung Function Parameters in Non-asthmatics Identified by Spirometric Protocols. J Clin Diagn Res (2014) 0.79
Overweight women and management of asthma. Womens Health Issues (2009) 0.79
Hostility and trajectories of body mass index over 19 years: the Whitehall II Study. Am J Epidemiol (2008) 0.79
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Effect of catastrophic wildfires on asthmatic outcomes in obese children: breathing fire. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol (2015) 0.76
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The effects of exercise training in a weight loss lifestyle intervention on asthma control, quality of life and psychosocial symptoms in adult obese asthmatics: protocol of a randomized controlled trial. BMC Pulm Med (2015) 0.76
Commentary on gender differences in prevalence, treatment, and quality of life of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis. Allergy Rhinol (Providence) (2015) 0.75
Asthma and body mass index in occupational setting. Med J Islam Repub Iran (2014) 0.75
Influence of asthma definition on the asthma-obesity relationship. BMC Public Health (2012) 0.75
High body mass index and allergies in schoolchildren: the French six cities study. BMJ Open Respir Res (2014) 0.75
Gender Associated High Body Mass Index in Allergic Diseases. Open Access Maced J Med Sci (2014) 0.75
Distal airway impairment in obese normoreactive women. Biomed Res Int (2013) 0.75
Piecewise Mixed Effects Model to Compare the Weight-gain Patter ns Before and After Diagnosis of Asthma in Children Younger than 5 Years. J Biom Biostat (2015) 0.75
Role of age at asthma diagnosis in the asthma-obesity relationship. Can Respir J (2010) 0.75
Association of obesity with asthma severity, control and quality of life. Tanaffos (2012) 0.75
Obesity and its correlation with spirometric variables in patients with asthma. MedGenMed (2006) 0.75
Weight Management Interventions in Adult and Pediatric Asthma Populations: A Systematic Review. J Pulm Respir Med (2015) 0.75
Physical Activity, Sedentary Habits, Sleep, and Obesity are Associated with Asthma, Allergic Rhinitis, and Atopic Dermatitis in Korean Adolescents. Yonsei Med J (2017) 0.75
Efficacy of a multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation outpatient program on exacerbations in overweight and obese patients with asthma. Wien Klin Wochenschr (2017) 0.75
Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality, and long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution. JAMA (2002) 28.72
Cardiovascular mortality and long-term exposure to particulate air pollution: epidemiological evidence of general pathophysiological pathways of disease. Circulation (2003) 12.78
Spatial analysis of air pollution and mortality in Los Angeles. Epidemiology (2005) 8.64
Long-term ozone exposure and mortality. N Engl J Med (2009) 6.90
Outpatient oral prednisone after emergency treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. N Engl J Med (2003) 5.12
Cardiovascular mortality and exposure to airborne fine particulate matter and cigarette smoke: shape of the exposure-response relationship. Circulation (2009) 4.84
The effect of concurvity in generalized additive models linking mortality to ambient particulate matter. Epidemiology (2003) 4.22
Lung cancer and cardiovascular disease mortality associated with ambient air pollution and cigarette smoke: shape of the exposure-response relationships. Environ Health Perspect (2011) 3.36
Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: health implications of short-lived greenhouse pollutants. Lancet (2009) 3.22
Long-term ambient fine particulate matter air pollution and lung cancer in a large cohort of never-smokers. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2011) 2.64
Association between gaseous ambient air pollutants and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Vancouver, Canada. Environ Health Perspect (2003) 2.55
Validation of the Harvard Six Cities Study of particulate air pollution and mortality. N Engl J Med (2004) 2.46
Air pollution and health: a European and North American approach (APHENA). Res Rep Health Eff Inst (2009) 2.33
The INTERPHONE study: design, epidemiological methods, and description of the study population. Eur J Epidemiol (2007) 2.30
Chemotherapy and survival benefit in elderly patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. J Clin Oncol (2010) 2.25
Traffic-related air pollution and acute changes in heart rate variability and respiratory function in urban cyclists. Environ Health Perspect (2011) 2.12
Toxicity testing in the 21st century: bringing the vision to life. Toxicol Sci (2008) 2.06
Epidemiologic evidence of relationships between reproductive and child health outcomes and environmental chemical contaminants. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev (2008) 2.00
Acute effects of ambient particulate matter on mortality in Europe and North America: results from the APHENA study. Environ Health Perspect (2008) 1.93
Spatial analysis of air pollution and mortality in California. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2013) 1.91
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is associated with lung cancer mortality in a prospective study of never smokers. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2007) 1.85
Acute effects of air pollution on pulmonary function, airway inflammation, and oxidative stress in asthmatic children. Environ Health Perspect (2008) 1.83
Spatial analysis of the air pollution-mortality relationship in the context of ecologic confounders. J Toxicol Environ Health A (2003) 1.81
Epidemiology of testicular cancer: an overview. Int J Cancer (2005) 1.80
Cigarette smoking and cancer risk: modeling total exposure and intensity. Am J Epidemiol (2007) 1.80
Comparison of time series and case-crossover analyses of air pollution and hospital admission data. Int J Epidemiol (2003) 1.79
Estimates of the cancer burden in Europe from radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident. Int J Cancer (2006) 1.71
Cancer mortality among US men and women with asthma and hay fever. Am J Epidemiol (2005) 1.70
Gender-related differences in the association between socioeconomic status and self-reported diabetes. Int J Epidemiol (2003) 1.61
A signal-to-noise crossover dose as the point of departure for health risk assessment. Environ Health Perspect (2011) 1.58
The influence of ambient coarse particulate matter on asthma hospitalization in children: case-crossover and time-series analyses. Environ Health Perspect (2002) 1.57
Maternal exposure to moderate ambient carbon monoxide is associated with decreased risk of preeclampsia. Am J Obstet Gynecol (2012) 1.56
The association between obesity and asthma is stronger in nonallergic than allergic adults. Chest (2006) 1.54
Conceptualizing the healthscape: contributions of time geography, location technologies and spatial ecology to place and health research. Soc Sci Med (2009) 1.51
A qualitative study of physicians' perceptions of three decision aids. Patient Educ Couns (2003) 1.49
Associations between short-term changes in nitrogen dioxide and mortality in Canadian cities. Arch Environ Health (2004) 1.46
An overview of the association between allergy and cancer. Int J Cancer (2006) 1.45
The epidemiology of chronic rhinosinusitis in Canadians. Laryngoscope (2003) 1.43
Estimates of global mortality attributable to particulate air pollution using satellite imagery. Environ Res (2012) 1.42
Health effects associated with exposure to ambient air pollution. J Toxicol Environ Health A (2007) 1.41
Alpha1-antitrypsin gene therapy modulates cellular immunity and efficiently prevents type 1 diabetes in nonobese diabetic mice. Hum Gene Ther (2006) 1.41
SOX4 cooperates with neurogenin 3 to regulate endocrine pancreas formation in mouse models. Diabetologia (2015) 1.40
Fine particulate air pollution and all-cause mortality within the Harvard Six-Cities Study: variations in risk by period of exposure. Ann Epidemiol (2002) 1.39
The Ontario Asthma Regional Variation Study: emergency department visit rates and the relation to hospitalization rates. Chest (2006) 1.38
Risk management frameworks for human health and environmental risks. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev (2003) 1.36
Exploring bias in a generalized additive model for spatial air pollution data. Environ Health Perspect (2003) 1.33
Radon and lung cancer in the American Cancer Society cohort. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev (2011) 1.30
Exhaled nitric oxide concentration is affected by age, height, and race in healthy 9- to 12-year-old children. Chest (2007) 1.29
Dietary patterns and risk of pancreatic cancer. Int J Cancer (2005) 1.28
Recall bias in the assessment of exposure to mobile phones. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol (2008) 1.27
Environmental hazards: evidence for effects on child health. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev (2007) 1.27
Association between ozone and respiratory admissions among children and the elderly in Vancouver, Canada. Inhal Toxicol (2003) 1.26
Gaseous air pollutants and asthma hospitalization of children with low household income in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Am J Epidemiol (2004) 1.25
Risk factors for ovarian cancer: an overview with emphasis on hormonal factors. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev (2008) 1.22
Men having sex with men donor deferral risk assessment: an analysis using risk management principles. Transfus Med Rev (2008) 1.21
The effects of recall errors and of selection bias in epidemiologic studies of mobile phone use and cancer risk. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol (2006) 1.20
Development of a wearable global positioning system for place and health research. Int J Health Geogr (2008) 1.18
Canadian Sleep Society/Canadian Thoracic Society position paper on the use of portable monitoring for the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea in adults. Can Respir J (2010) 1.17
Association between maternal exposure to ambient air pollutants during pregnancy and fetal growth restriction. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol (2006) 1.16
The vision of toxicity testing in the 21st century: moving from discussion to action. Toxicol Sci (2010) 1.12
Spatial analysis for environmental health research: concepts, methods, and examples. J Toxicol Environ Health A (2003) 1.12
Influence of personal exposure to particulate air pollution on cardiovascular physiology and biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress in subjects with diabetes. J Occup Environ Med (2007) 1.11
Quantifying the health impacts of ambient air pollutants: recommendations of a WHO/Europe project. Int J Public Health (2015) 1.11
Controlling for potential confounding by occupational exposures. J Toxicol Environ Health A (2003) 1.10
Bias due to aggregation of individual covariates in the Cox regression model. Am J Epidemiol (2004) 1.09
Neonatal death and morbidity in vertex-nonvertex second twins according to mode of delivery and birth weight. Am J Obstet Gynecol (2005) 1.08
Thermal therapy, part 1: an introduction to thermal therapy. Crit Rev Biomed Eng (2006) 1.08
The influence of air pollution on cardiovascular and pulmonary function and exercise capacity: Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS). Environ Res (2011) 1.08
Residential radon in Canada: an uncertainty analysis of population and individual lung cancer risk. Risk Anal (2005) 1.08
Health effects of radon: a review of the literature. Int J Radiat Biol (2009) 1.05
A systematic review and meta-analysis of childhood leukemia and parental occupational pesticide exposure. Environ Health Perspect (2009) 1.05
Allergy and brain tumors in the INTERPHONE study: pooled results from Australia, Canada, France, Israel, and New Zealand. Cancer Causes Control (2013) 1.05
Air pollution and public health: a guidance document for risk managers. J Toxicol Environ Health A (2008) 1.03
Influence of relatively low level of particulate ar pollution on hospitalization for COPD in elderly people. Inhal Toxicol (2004) 1.03
An overview of the North American residential radon and lung cancer case-control studies. J Toxicol Environ Health A (2006) 1.02
Thermal therapy, part 2: hyperthermia techniques. Crit Rev Biomed Eng (2006) 1.01
A time-series study of air pollution, socioeconomic status, and mortality in Vancouver, Canada. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol (2003) 1.01
Residential pesticides and childhood leukemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Environ Health Perspect (2010) 1.01
Determinants of breast-feeding and weaning in Alberta, Canada. J Obstet Gynaecol Can (2004) 1.01
Review of the etiology of breast cancer with special attention to organochlorines as potential endocrine disruptors. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev (2008) 1.00
Selection of ecologic covariates in the American Cancer Society study. J Toxicol Environ Health A (2003) 1.00
Occurrence and clinical predictors of operative delivery for the vertex second twin after normal vaginal delivery of the first twin. Am J Obstet Gynecol (2005) 0.98
Health risks of electromagnetic fields. Part II: Evaluation and assessment of radio frequency radiation. Crit Rev Biomed Eng (2003) 0.98
Paternal age and adverse birth outcomes: teenager or 40+, who is at risk? Hum Reprod (2008) 0.98
Neutralizing antibodies elicited by a novel detoxified pneumolysin derivative, PlyD1, provide protection against both pneumococcal infection and lung injury. Infect Immun (2012) 0.97
Variations and gaps in management of acute asthma in Ontario emergency departments. Chest (2008) 0.97
The association between sulfate air pollution and mortality at the county scale: an exploration of the impact of scale on a long-term exposure study. J Toxicol Environ Health A (2003) 0.97
Comparing the Health Effects of Ambient Particulate Matter Estimated Using Ground-Based versus Remote Sensing Exposure Estimates. Environ Health Perspect (2016) 0.97
Radon and nonrespiratory mortality in the American Cancer Society cohort. Am J Epidemiol (2012) 0.96
Interactions between cigarette smoking and fine particulate matter in the Risk of Lung Cancer Mortality in Cancer Prevention Study II. Am J Epidemiol (2014) 0.96
Disaster and emergency management: Canadian nurses' perceptions of preparedness on hospital front lines. Prehosp Disaster Med (2008) 0.96
Association between air pollution and multiple respiratory hospitalizations among the elderly in Vancouver, Canada. Inhal Toxicol (2006) 0.95
Bayesian model averaging in time-series studies of air pollution and mortality. J Toxicol Environ Health A (2007) 0.95
Spatial regression models for large-cohort studies linking community air pollution and health. J Toxicol Environ Health A (2003) 0.95
Copper and human health: biochemistry, genetics, and strategies for modeling dose-response relationships. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev (2007) 0.95
Assessing and managing risks arising from exposure to endocrine-active chemicals. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev (2008) 0.93
A comprehensive evaluation of the potential health risks associated with occupational and environmental exposure to styrene. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev (2002) 0.93
Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality and Long-Term Exposure to Source-Related Components of U.S. Fine Particle Air Pollution. Environ Health Perspect (2015) 0.93
Dietary risk factors for testicular carcinoma. Int J Cancer (2003) 0.92
A multi-level analysis of risk factors for Schistosoma japonicum infection in China. Int J Infect Dis (2009) 0.92