Browsing by Author "Melly, Steven"
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Air Pollution Exposure and Abnormal Glucose Tolerance during Pregnancy: The Project Viva Cohort
Fleisch, Abby F.; Gold, Diane R.; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Koutrakis, Petros; Schwartz, Joel D.; Kloog, Itai; Melly, Steven; Coull, Brent A.; Zanobetti, Antonella; Gillman, Matthew W.; Oken, Emily (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2014)Background: Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM with diameter ≤ 2.5 μm; PM2.5) has been linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus, but associations with hyperglycemia in pregnancy have not been well studied. Methods: We studied ... -
Ambient air pollution, lung function, and airway responsiveness in asthmatic children
Ierodiakonou, Despo; Zanobetti, Antonella; Coull, Brent Andrew; Melly, Steven John; Postma, Dirkje S.; Boezen, H. Marike; Vonk, Judith M.; Williams, Paul V.; Shapiro, Gail G.; McKone, Edward F.; Hallstrand, Teal S.; Koenig, Jane Q.; Schildcrout, Jonathan S.; Lumley, Thomas; Fuhlbrigge, Anne Louise; Koutrakis, Petros; Schwartz, Joel David; Weiss, Scott Tillman; Gold, Diane R. (Elsevier BV, 2016)Background: Although ambient air pollution has been linked to reduced lung function in healthy children, longitudinal analyses of pollution effects in asthma are lacking. Objective: To investigate pollution effects in ... -
Annual Ambient Black Carbon Associated with Shorter Telomeres in Elderly Men: Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study
Hoxha, Mirjam; Dioni, Laura; McCracken, John Patrick; Baccarelli, Andrea; Melly, Steven John; Coull, Brent Andrew; Suh MacIntosh, Helen H.; Vokonas, Pantel S; Schwartz, Joel David (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2010)Background: Telomere length reflects biological age and is inversely associated with risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Ambient air pollution is associated with CVD, but its effect on telomere length is unknown. Objective: ... -
A Case–Control Analysis of Exposure to Traffic and Acute Myocardial Infarction
Tonne, Cathryn; Melly, Steven John; Mittleman, Murray A.; Coull, Brent Andrew; Goldberg, Robert; Schwartz, Joel David (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2006)Background: Long-term exposure to particulate air pollution has been associated with an increased risk of dying from cardiopulmonary and ischemic heart disease, yet few studies have evaluated cardiovascular end points other ... -
Modifiers of Short-term Effects of Ozone on Mortality in Eastern Massachusetts: A Case-crossover Analysis at Individual Level
Ren, Cizao; Melly, Steven John; Schwartz, Joel David (BioMed Central, 2010)Background: Substantial epidemiological studies demonstrate associations between exposure to ambient ozone and mortality. A few studies simply examine the modification of this ozone effect by individual characteristics and ... -
Racial differences in the built environment—body mass index relationship? A geospatial analysis of adolescents in urban neighborhoods
Duncan, Dustin T; Castro, Marcia C.de; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Aldstadt, Jared; Melly, Steven John; Bennett, Gary G (BioMed Central, 2012)Background: Built environment features of neighborhoods may be related to obesity among adolescents and potentially related to obesity-related health disparities. The purpose of this study was to investigate spatial ... -
Residential exposure to aircraft noise and hospital admissions for cardiovascular diseases: multi-airport retrospective study
Correia, Andrew W; Peters, Junenette L; Levy, Jonathan I; Melly, Steven; Dominici, Francesca (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2013)Objective: To investigate whether exposure to aircraft noise increases the risk of hospitalization for cardiovascular diseases in older people (≥65 years) residing near airports. Design: Multi-airport retrospective study ... -
Residential Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Survival after Heart Failure
Medina-Ramón, Mercedes; Goldberg, Robert; Melly, Steven John; Mittleman, Murray A.; Schwartz, Joel David (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2008)Background: Although patients with heart failure (HF) have been identified as particularly susceptible to the acute effects of air pollution, the effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on patients with this ... -
Spatiotemporal prediction of fine particulate matter using high-resolution satellite images in the Southeastern US 2003–2011
Lee, Mihye; Schwartz, Joel David; Kloog, Itai; Chudnovsky, Alexandra; Lyapustin, Alexei; Wang, Yujie; Melly, Steven John; Coull, Brent Andrew; Koutrakis, Petros; Schwartz, Joel David (Nature Publishing Group, 2015)Numerous studies have demonstrated that fine particulate matter (PM2.5, particles smaller than 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter) is associated with adverse health outcomes. The use of ground monitoring stations of PM2.5 to ... -
Using New Satellite Based Exposure Methods to Study the Association between Pregnancy PM\(_{2.5}\) Exposure, Premature Birth and Birth Weight in Massachusetts
Kloog, Itai; Melly, Steven John; Ridgway, William L; Coull, Brent Andrew; Schwartz, Joel David (BioMed Central, 2012)Background: Adverse birth outcomes such as low birth weight and premature birth have been previously linked with exposure to ambient air pollution. Most studies relied on a limited number of monitors in the region of ...