Browsing by Author "Bobb, Jennifer"

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    • Heat-Related Mortality and Adaptation to Heat in the United States 

      Bobb, Jennifer F.; Peng, Roger D.; Bell, Michelle L.; Dominici, Francesca (NLM-Export, 2014)
      Background: In a changing climate, increasing temperatures are anticipated to have profound health impacts. These impacts could be mitigated if individuals and communities adapt to changing exposures; however, little is ...

    • Perinatal Air Pollutant Exposures and Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Children of Nurses’ Health Study II Participants 

      Roberts, Andrea L.; Lyall, Kristen; Hart, Jaime E.; Laden, Francine; Just, Allan C.; Bobb, Jennifer F.; Koenen, Karestan C.; Ascherio, Alberto; Weisskopf, Marc G. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2013)
      Objective: Air pollution contains many toxicants known to affect neurological function and to have effects on the fetus in utero. Recent studies have reported associations between perinatal exposure to air pollutants and ...

    • Toward a Quantitative Estimate of Future Heat Wave Mortality under Global Climate Change 

      Peng, Roger D.; Bobb, Jennifer; Tebaldi, Claudia; McDaniel, Larry; Bell, Michelle D.; Dominici, Francesca (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2010)
      Background: Climate change is anticipated to affect human health by changing the distribution of known risk factors. Heat waves have had debilitating effects on human mortality, and global climate models predict an increase ...