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Howard Hu

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1 A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012 50.94
2 Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. Lancet 2015 7.99
3 Maternal fish intake during pregnancy, blood mercury levels, and child cognition at age 3 years in a US cohort. Am J Epidemiol 2008 3.54
4 Recommendations for medical management of adult lead exposure. Environ Health Perspect 2006 3.38
5 Exposure to bisphenol A and other phenols in neonatal intensive care unit premature infants. Environ Health Perspect 2008 3.17
6 Maternal fish consumption, hair mercury, and infant cognition in a U.S. Cohort. Environ Health Perspect 2005 2.99
7 Associations of early childhood manganese and lead coexposure with neurodevelopment. Environ Health Perspect 2011 2.31
8 Accumulated lead exposure and risk of age-related cataract in men. JAMA 2004 2.29
9 Longitudinal associations between blood lead concentrations lower than 10 microg/dL and neurobehavioral development in environmentally exposed children in Mexico City. Pediatrics 2006 2.17
10 Cumulative lead dose and cognitive function in adults: a review of studies that measured both blood lead and bone lead. Environ Health Perspect 2006 1.94
11 Outcome-dependent sampling: an efficient sampling and inference procedure for studies with a continuous outcome. Epidemiology 2007 1.92
12 Maternal arsenic exposure and impaired glucose tolerance during pregnancy. Environ Health Perspect 2009 1.91
13 The faroes statement: human health effects of developmental exposure to chemicals in our environment. Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol 2008 1.91
14 Cumulative exposure to lead in relation to cognitive function in older women. Environ Health Perspect 2008 1.87
15 Cumulative lead exposure and prospective change in cognition among elderly men: the VA Normative Aging Study. Am J Epidemiol 2004 1.86
16 Association between iron deficiency and blood lead level in a longitudinal analysis of children followed in an urban primary care clinic. J Pediatr 2003 1.83
17 Influence of prenatal lead exposure on genomic methylation of cord blood DNA. Environ Health Perspect 2009 1.74
18 Maternal bone lead as an independent risk factor for fetal neurotoxicity: a prospective study. Pediatrics 2002 1.67
19 Urinary phthalate metabolites in relation to preterm birth in Mexico city. Environ Health Perspect 2009 1.59
20 HFE genotype, particulate air pollution, and heart rate variability: a gene-environment interaction. Circulation 2006 1.59
21 Lead exposure and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Epidemiology 2002 1.59
22 Apolipoprotein E genotype predicts 24-month bayley scales infant development score. Pediatr Res 2003 1.59
23 Biomarkers of lead exposure and DNA methylation within retrotransposons. Environ Health Perspect 2010 1.58
24 Early postnatal blood manganese levels and children's neurodevelopment. Epidemiology 2010 1.58
25 A prospective study of bone lead concentration and death from all causes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer in the Department of Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study. Circulation 2009 1.54
26 Bone lead levels and blood pressure endpoints: a meta-analysis. Epidemiology 2008 1.48
27 Cumulative lead exposure and cognitive performance among elderly men. Epidemiology 2007 1.46
28 Lead, diabetes, hypertension, and renal function: the normative aging study. Environ Health Perspect 2004 1.45
29 Maternal lead exposure and the secondary sex ratio. Hum Reprod 2006 1.44
30 Lead exposure biomarkers and mini-mental status exam scores in older men. Epidemiology 2003 1.44
31 Bisphenol a exposure in Mexico City and risk of prematurity: a pilot nested case control study. Environ Health 2010 1.42
32 Impact of bone lead and bone resorption on plasma and whole blood lead levels during pregnancy. Am J Epidemiol 2004 1.40
33 Maternal blood manganese levels and infant birth weight. Epidemiology 2009 1.40
34 Effect of calcium supplementation on blood lead levels in pregnancy: a randomized placebo-controlled trial. Environ Health Perspect 2008 1.37
35 Lead exposure and behavior among young children in Chennai, India. Environ Health Perspect 2009 1.31
36 Effect of maternal bone lead on length and head circumference of newborns and 1-month-old infants. Arch Environ Health 2003 1.30
37 Dietary calcium supplements to lower blood lead levels in lactating women: a randomized placebo-controlled trial. Epidemiology 2003 1.28
38 Genome-wide DNA methylation differences between late-onset Alzheimer's disease and cognitively normal controls in human frontal cortex. J Alzheimers Dis 2012 1.27
39 Traffic-related particles are associated with elevated homocysteine: the VA normative aging study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2008 1.27
40 Use of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate-containing medical products and urinary levels of mono(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate in neonatal intensive care unit infants. Environ Health Perspect 2005 1.27
41 Stress as a potential modifier of the impact of lead levels on blood pressure: the normative aging study. Environ Health Perspect 2007 1.23
42 Effect of breast milk lead on infant blood lead levels at 1 month of age. Environ Health Perspect 2004 1.23
43 Adult lead exposure: time for change. Environ Health Perspect 2006 1.20
44 Impacts of climate change on public health in India: future research directions. Environ Health Perspect 2011 1.18
45 Correlates of bone and blood lead levels among middle-aged and elderly women. Am J Epidemiol 2002 1.15
46 Association between hemochromatosis genotype and lead exposure among elderly men: the normative aging study. Environ Health Perspect 2004 1.15
47 A pilot study of blood lead levels and neurobehavioral function in children living in Chennai, India. Int J Occup Environ Health 2005 1.14
48 Exposure to phthalates in neonatal intensive care unit infants: urinary concentrations of monoesters and oxidative metabolites. Environ Health Perspect 2006 1.14
49 Variants in iron metabolism genes predict higher blood lead levels in young children. Environ Health Perspect 2008 1.14
50 Calcium supplements and bone resorption in pregnancy: a randomized crossover trial. Am J Prev Med 2003 1.11
51 Association of cumulative lead exposure with Parkinson's disease. Environ Health Perspect 2010 1.08
52 Childhood correlates of blood lead levels in Mumbai and Delhi. Environ Health Perspect 2006 1.08
53 Cadmium exposure and cardiovascular disease in the 2005 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Environ Res 2010 1.07
54 Statistical methods to study timing of vulnerability with sparsely sampled data on environmental toxicants. Environ Health Perspect 2011 1.06
55 Longitudinal changes in bone lead levels: the VA Normative Aging Study. J Occup Environ Med 2011 1.06
56 Associations of iron metabolism genes with blood manganese levels: a population-based study with validation data from animal models. Environ Health 2011 1.06
57 Maternal self-esteem, exposure to lead, and child neurodevelopment. Neurotoxicology 2007 1.05
58 Parent-adolescent interaction and risk of adolescent internet addiction: a population-based study in Shanghai. BMC Psychiatry 2014 1.04
59 Associations of toenail arsenic, cadmium, mercury, manganese, and lead with blood pressure in the normative aging study. Environ Health Perspect 2011 1.04
60 Lead levels and ischemic heart disease in a prospective study of middle-aged and elderly men: the VA Normative Aging Study. Environ Health Perspect 2007 1.03
61 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, lead, and genetic susceptibility: polymorphisms in the delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase and vitamin D receptor genes. Environ Health Perspect 2003 1.03
62 Lead burden and psychiatric symptoms and the modifying influence of the delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) polymorphism: the VA Normative Aging Study. Am J Epidemiol 2007 1.02
63 A delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) polymorphism may modify the relationship of low-level lead exposure to uricemia and renal function: the normative aging study. Environ Health Perspect 2003 1.02
64 Risk factors for multisymptom illness in US Army veterans of the Gulf War. J Occup Environ Med 2002 1.02
65 The relationship between lead in plasma and whole blood in women. Environ Health Perspect 2002 1.02
66 Impact of breastfeeding on the mobilization of lead from bone. Am J Epidemiol 2002 1.02
67 Prenatal lead exposure and weight of 0- to 5-year-old children in Mexico city. Environ Health Perspect 2011 1.01
68 Maternal blood, plasma, and breast milk lead: lactational transfer and contribution to infant exposure. Environ Health Perspect 2013 1.01
69 Low-level lead exposure, metabolic syndrome, and heart rate variability: the VA Normative Aging Study. Environ Health Perspect 2006 1.01
70 Longitudinal assessment of PCBs and chlorinated pesticides in pregnant women from Western Canada. Environ Health 2005 1.01
71 Interaction of stress, lead burden, and age on cognition in older men: the VA Normative Aging Study. Environ Health Perspect 2009 1.00
72 Biological markers of fetal lead exposure at each stage of pregnancy. J Toxicol Environ Health A 2006 1.00
73 Cadmium exposure and nephropathy in a 28-year-old female metals worker. Environ Health Perspect 2002 1.00
74 Relationship of bone and blood lead levels to psychiatric symptoms: the normative aging study. J Occup Environ Med 2003 1.00
75 Prenatal urinary phthalate metabolites levels and neurodevelopment in children at two and three years of age. Sci Total Environ 2013 0.99
76 HFE H63D polymorphism as a modifier of the effect of cumulative lead exposure on pulse pressure: the Normative Aging Study. Environ Health Perspect 2010 0.99
77 Association of lead exposure with survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Environ Health Perspect 2008 0.98
78 Influence of maternal bone lead burden and calcium intake on levels of lead in breast milk over the course of lactation. Am J Epidemiol 2005 0.98
79 Air pollution and heart rate variability: effect modification by chronic lead exposure. Epidemiology 2008 0.98
80 Biased Exposure-Health Effect Estimates from Selection in Cohort Studies: Are Environmental Studies at Particular Risk? Environ Health Perspect 2015 0.98
81 Determinants of bone and blood lead levels among minorities living in the Boston area. Environ Health Perspect 2004 0.97
82 Global environmental change: what can health care providers and the environmental health community do about it now? Environ Health Perspect 2006 0.97
83 Cumulative community-level lead exposure and pulse pressure: the normative aging study. Environ Health Perspect 2007 0.96
84 Environmental cadmium and lead exposures and hearing loss in U.S. adults: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999 to 2004. Environ Health Perspect 2012 0.95
85 Cell type specificity of lung cancer associated with arsenic ingestion. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2004 0.95
86 Relationship of blood and bone lead to menopause and bone mineral density among middle-age women in Mexico City. Environ Health Perspect 2003 0.95
87 Cumulative lead exposure and age-related hearing loss: the VA Normative Aging Study. Hear Res 2010 0.95
88 Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic evidence of glial effects of cumulative lead exposure in the adult human hippocampus. Environ Health Perspect 2007 0.95
89 Interaction of the delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase polymorphism and lead burden on cognitive function: the VA normative aging study. J Occup Environ Med 2008 0.93
90 Levels of lead in breast milk and their relation to maternal blood and bone lead levels at one month postpartum. Environ Health Perspect 2004 0.92
91 HFE gene variants modify the association between maternal lead burden and infant birthweight: a prospective birth cohort study in Mexico City, Mexico. Environ Health 2010 0.92
92 Predictors of blood lead in children in Chennai, India (2005-2006). Int J Occup Environ Health 2009 0.92
93 Modifying effects of the HFE polymorphisms on the association between lead burden and cognitive decline. Environ Health Perspect 2007 0.91
94 Occupational noise exposure assessment using O*NET and its application to a study of hearing loss in the US general population. Occup Environ Med 2011 0.90
95 Lead concentrations in relation to multiple biomarkers of cardiovascular disease: the Normative Aging Study. Environ Health Perspect 2011 0.89
96 Association between prenatal lead exposure and blood pressure in children. Environ Health Perspect 2011 0.89
97 Fruit, vegetable, and fish consumption and heart rate variability: the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study. Am J Clin Nutr 2009 0.89
98 A combined ecological and epidemiologic investigation of metal exposures amongst Indigenous peoples near the Marlin Mine in Western Guatemala. Sci Total Environ 2010 0.89
99 Critical windows of fetal lead exposure: adverse impacts on length of gestation and risk of premature delivery. J Occup Environ Med 2010 0.89
100 Bone lead level prediction models and their application to examine the relationship of lead exposure and hypertension in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. J Occup Environ Med 2009 0.89
101 Antioxidant vitamins and magnesium and the risk of hearing loss in the US general population. Am J Clin Nutr 2013 0.88
102 Hemoglobin, lead exposure, and intelligence quotient: effect modification by the DRD2 Taq IA polymorphism. Environ Health Perspect 2011 0.88
103 Windows of lead exposure sensitivity, attained height, and body mass index at 48 months. J Pediatr 2012 0.87
104 Dietary calcium supplementation to lower blood lead levels in pregnancy and lactation. J Nutr Biochem 2007 0.87
105 Associations between extreme precipitation and gastrointestinal-related hospital admissions in Chennai, India. Environ Health Perspect 2013 0.87
106 Childhood and adult socioeconomic position, cumulative lead levels, and pessimism in later life: the VA Normative Aging Study. Am J Epidemiol 2011 0.87
107 Association between 24-hour urinary cadmium and pulmonary function among community-exposed men: the VA Normative Aging Study. Environ Health Perspect 2008 0.86
108 Iron metabolism genes, low-level lead exposure, and QT interval. Environ Health Perspect 2008 0.86
109 Alzheimer's disease and environmental exposure to lead: the epidemiologic evidence and potential role of epigenetics. Curr Alzheimer Res 2012 0.86
110 How cumulative risks warrant a shift in our approach to racial health disparities: the case of lead, stress, and hypertension. Health Aff (Millwood) 2011 0.86
111 Personal characteristics related to the risk of adolescent internet addiction: a survey in Shanghai, China. BMC Public Health 2012 0.86
112 Approaching a collaborative research agenda for health systems performance in circumpolar regions. Int J Circumpolar Health 2013 0.86
113 A novel look at racial health disparities: the interaction between social disadvantage and environmental health. Am J Public Health 2012 0.85
114 Effect of calcium supplementation on bone resorption in pregnancy and the early postpartum: a randomized controlled trial in Mexican women. Nutr J 2014 0.85
115 Forced expiratory volume in 1 second and cognitive aging in men. J Am Geriatr Soc 2011 0.85
116 Dietary calcium as a potential modifier of the relationship of lead burden to blood pressure. Epidemiology 2006 0.85
117 Occupational determinants of bone and blood lead levels in middle aged and elderly men from the general community: the Normative Aging Study. Am J Ind Med 2002 0.85
118 Assessing windows of susceptibility to lead-induced cognitive deficits in Mexican children. Neurotoxicology 2012 0.84
119 A dopamine receptor (DRD2) but not dopamine transporter (DAT1) gene polymorphism is associated with neurocognitive development of Mexican preschool children with lead exposure. J Pediatr 2011 0.84
120 Relationships between lead biomarkers and diurnal salivary cortisol indices in pregnant women from Mexico City: a cross-sectional study. Environ Health 2014 0.84
121 Cognitive deficits and magnetic resonance spectroscopy in adult monozygotic twins with lead poisoning. Environ Health Perspect 2004 0.83
122 Cumulative lead exposure in community-dwelling adults and fine motor function: comparing standard and novel tasks in the VA normative aging study. Neurotoxicology 2013 0.83
123 Bone, blood and semen lead in men with environmental and moderate occupational exposure. Int J Environ Health Res 2005 0.82
124 Modification of the association between lead exposure and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by iron and oxidative stress related gene polymorphisms. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener 2014 0.81
125 Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase ( MTHFR) C677T, A1298C and G1793A genotypes, and the relationship between maternal folate intake, tibia lead and infant size at birth. Br J Nutr 2009 0.81
126 Effects of duration and timing of prenatal stress on hippocampal myelination and synaptophysin expression. Brain Res 2013 0.81
127 Black-white blood pressure disparities: depressive symptoms and differential vulnerability to blood lead. Environ Health Perspect 2012 0.81
128 Season modifies the relationship between bone and blood lead levels: the Normative Aging Study. Arch Environ Health 2003 0.81
129 Bone lead and endogenous exposure in an environmentally exposed elderly population: the normative aging study. J Occup Environ Med 2009 0.81
130 VEGF promoter haplotype and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). J Neurogenet 2005 0.80
131 Social and Environmental Risk Factors for Hypertension in African Americans. Fla Public Health Rev 2008 0.80
132 Cumulative exposure to lead and cognition in persons with Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord 2012 0.80
133 Modifying roles of glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms on the association between cumulative lead exposure and cognitive function. Neurotoxicology 2013 0.80
134 Association between the plasma/whole blood lead ratio and history of spontaneous abortion: a nested cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2007 0.80
135 Statement in response to asbestos industry efforts to prevent a ban on asbestos in Pakistan: chrysotile asbestos use is not safe and must be banned. Arch Environ Occup Health 2013 0.79
136 Prospective cohort study of lead exposure and electrocardiographic conduction disturbances in the Department of Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study. Environ Health Perspect 2011 0.79
137 Lead exposure, B vitamins, and plasma homocysteine in men 55 years of age and older: the VA normative aging study. Environ Health Perspect 2014 0.79
138 High dietary calcium intake decreases bone mobilization during pregnancy in humans. Salud Publica Mex 2009 0.78
139 Reduction of cooking oil fume exposure following an engineering intervention in Chinese restaurants. Occup Environ Med 2010 0.78
140 Lead exposure in Mexican radiator repair workers. Am J Ind Med 2002 0.78
141 Relation of cumulative low-level lead exposure to depressive and phobic anxiety symptom scores in middle-age and elderly women. Environ Health Perspect 2012 0.78
142 Effect modification by transferrin C2 polymorphism on lead exposure, hemoglobin levels, and IQ. Neurotoxicology 2013 0.77
143 Quality control and statistical modeling for environmental epigenetics: a study on in utero lead exposure and DNA methylation at birth. Epigenetics 2015 0.77
144 Maternal iron metabolism gene variants modify umbilical cord blood lead levels by gene-environment interaction: a birth cohort study. Environ Health 2014 0.77
145 Maternal dietary intake of polyunsaturated fatty acids modifies the relationship between lead levels in bone and breast milk. J Nutr 2008 0.77
146 Health risks from lead-based ammunition in the environment. Environ Health Perspect 2013 0.77
147 Maternal MTHFR genotype and haplotype predict deficits in early cognitive development in a lead-exposed birth cohort in Mexico City. Am J Clin Nutr 2010 0.77
148 Cumulative lead exposure and age at menopause in the Nurses' Health Study cohort. Environ Health Perspect 2014 0.77
149 Environmental and occupational exposures in immigrant health. Environ Health Insights 2008 0.77
150 Bias correction by use of errors-in-variables regression models in studies with K-X-ray fluorescence bone lead measurements. Environ Res 2010 0.76
151 Lead exposure and fear-potentiated startle in the VA Normative Aging Study: a pilot study of a novel physiological approach to investigating neurotoxicant effects. Neurotoxicol Teratol 2013 0.76
152 Association between urinary 3, 5, 6-trichloro-2-pyridinol, a metabolite of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl, and serum T4 and TSH in NHANES 1999-2002. Sci Total Environ 2012 0.76
153 [Time to pregnancy and lead exposure]. Salud Publica Mex 2003 0.76
154 Occupational determinants of cumulative lead exposure: analysis of bone lead among men in the VA normative aging study. J Occup Environ Med 2014 0.76
155 Lead exposure and visual-motor abilities in children from Chennai, India. Neurotoxicology 2011 0.76
156 Prenatal Maternal Occupational Exposure and Postnatal Child Exposure to Elemental Mercury. Pediatr Emerg Care 2016 0.76
157 Childhood Blood Lead Levels and Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Cross-Sectional Study of Mexican Children. Environ Health Perspect 2015 0.75
158 Lead exposure and tremor among older men: the VA normative aging study. Environ Health Perspect 2015 0.75
159 A safe strategy to decrease fetal lead exposure in a woman with chronic intoxication. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2010 0.75
160 The future of environmental medicine in Environmental Health Perspectives: where should we be headed? Environ Health Perspect 2005 0.75
161 Global issues in medical education. Lancet 2002 0.75
162 Cumulative lead exposure and tooth loss in men: the normative aging study. Environ Health Perspect 2009 0.75
163 In response to the 2002, vol. 22, no. 4 article entitled "The rise and fall of occupational medicine in the United States". Am J Prev Med 2002 0.75
164 The environment & health: an emerging area of research in India. Indian J Med Res 2005 0.75
165 Predictors of plasma lead among lithographic print shop workers in Mexico City. Am J Ind Med 2004 0.75