Browsing by Author "Wesseling, Catharina"

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    • Aerial application of mancozeb and urinary ethylene thiourea (ETU) concentrations among pregnant women in Costa Rica: the Infants' Environmental Health Study (ISA). 

      van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Mora, Ana María; Córdoba, Leonel; Cano, Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Faniband, Moosa; Wesseling, Catharina; Ruepert, Clemens; Oberg, Mathias; Eskenazi, Brenda; Mergler, Donna; Lindh, Christian (Research: Children´s health, 2014-12)
      Background: Mancozeb and its main metabolite ethylene thiourea (ETU) may alter thyroid function; thyroid hormones are essential for fetal brain development. In Costa Rica, mancozeb is aerially sprayed at large-scale ...

    • Agricoh: A consortium of agricultural cohorts 

      Leon, Maria; Beane Freeman, Laura; Douwes, Jeroen; Hoppin, Jane; Kromhout, Hans; Lebailly, Pierre; Christian Nordby, Karl; Schenker, Marc; Schüz, Joachim; Waring, Stephen; Alavanja, Michael; Annesi Maesano, Isabella; Baldi, Isabelle; Aqiel Dalvie, Mohamed; Ferro, Giles; Fervers, Beatris; Langseth, Hilde; London, Leslie; Lynch, Charles; McLaughlin, John; Merchant, James; Pahwa, Punam; Sigsgaard, Torben; Stayner, Leslie; Wesseling, Catharina; Keun-Young, Yoo; Zahm, Sheila; Straif, Kurt; Blair, Aaron (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute(MDPI), Switzerland., 2011-04-29)
      AGRICOH is a recently formed consortium of agricultural cohort studies involving 22 cohorts from nine countries in five continents: South Africa (1), Canada (3), Costa Rica (2), USA (6), Republic of Korea (1), New Zealand ...

    • Childhood leukaemia in Costa Rica, 1981-96 

      Monge, Patricia; Wesseling, Catharina; Rodríguez, Ana Cecilia; Cantor, Kenneth P; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Reutfors, Johan; Ahlbom, Anders; Partanen, Timo (Blackwell Science, 2002)
      Childhood leukaemia incidence in Costa Rica during 1981-96, among the highest in the world, was analysed by histology, gender, birth year, time period of diagnosis, age at diagnosis and region. Numbers of cases were extracted ...

    • Determinación del historial de exposiciones en la epidemiolgía ocupacional 

      Espinosa, Maria Teresa; Partanen, Timo; Piñeros, Marion; Chaves, Jorge; Posso, Héctor; Monge, Patricia; Blanco, Luís; Wesseling, Catharina (World Health Organization, 2005-01)
      La validez de los indicadores de exposición es una condición necesaria en epidemiología si se han de obtener resultados válidos en la medición de los riesgos asociados con la exposición a agentes nocivos en el entorno ...

    • Efectos del clorpirifos en la salud de trabajadores bananeros de la Lima, Honduras 

      Wesseling, Catharina; Aragón, Aurora; Rojas, Marianela; Blanco, Luis; López, Lylliam; Soto, Arlen; Fúnez, Aura; Ruepert, Clemens; Miranda, Jamilet; López, Indiana (SALTRA / IRET-UNA, 2006-09)
      El clorpirifos es un insecticida organofosforado de toxicidad aguda moderada, de amplio uso en la agricultura y el ambiente doméstico. Hallazgos toxicológicos y epidemiológicos recientes de asociaciones a neuropatía ...

    • Enfermedad renal crónica: evaluación del conocimiento actual y factibilidad de colaboración regional en investigación en América Central 

      Cuadra, Steven N.; Jakobsson, Kristina; Hogstedt, Christer; Wesseling, Catharina (SALTRA / IRET-UNA, 2006-11)
      El número de pacientes con enfermedad renal crónica (ERC) y enfermedad renal terminal (ERT) está incrementándose tanto en los países desarrollados como en los países en desarrollo, por lo que ha aumentado considerablemente ...

    • Indigenous children living nearby plantations with chlorpyrifos-treated bags have elevated 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol (TCPy) urinary concentrations 

      van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Barraza, Douglas; Ruepert, Clemens; Mora Vargas, Ana Maria; Oberg, Mathias; Wesseling, Catharina; Lindh, Christian; Mergler, Donna; Córdoba, Leonel (Elsevier, 2012)
      The US Environmental Protection Agency voluntary phased-out residential use of chlorpyrifos in 2001. In contrast, in Costa Rica, chlorpyrifos-treated bags are increasingly used to protect banana and plantain fruits from ...

    • Maternal residential pesticide use and risk of childhoodleukemia in Costa Rica 

      Hyland, Carly; Gunier, Robert; Metayer, Catherine; Bates, Michael N.; Wesseling, Catharina; Mora, Ana Maria (Wiley-Liss Inc., 2018-04-15)
      Evidence suggests that early-life exposure to pesticides inside the home may be associated with childhood leukemia, howeverdata from Latin American countries are limited. We examined whether self-reported maternal residential ...

    • Mesoamerican nephropathy: report from the first international research workshop on men 

      Wesseling, Catharina; Crowe, Jennifer; Hogstedt, Christer; Jakobsson, Kristina; Lucas, Rebekah; Wegman, David (SALTRA / IRET-UNA, 2013-03)
      Durante los últimos 20 años en América Central se ha observado un incremento acelerado de la enfermedad renal crónica, que no se puede explicar con los factores de riesgo tradicionales como diabetes e hipertensión arterial. ...

    • Mesoamerican Nephropathy: Report from the Second International Research Workshop on Men 

      Wegman, David; Crowe, Jennifer; Hogstedt, Christer; Jakobsson, Kristina; Wesseling, Catharina (Program on Work, Environment and Health in Central America (SALTRA), 2016-08-01)

    • Noticias Centroamericanas: Volumen #12 

      Mora, Ana María; Córdoba, Leonel; Cano, Juan Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Faniband, Moosa; Wesseling, Catharina (SALTRA / IRET-UNA, 2015-04-17)
      En Costa Rica, el fungicida mancozeb se aplica por vía área y de manera semanal en plantaciones de banano a gran escala (Figura 1). La toxicidad aguda del mancozeb y su principal metabolito, el etilentiourea (ETU), es baja ...

    • Pesticide exposure and neurodevelopment in children age 6-9 years from Talamanca, Costa Rica. 

      van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Mora, Ana María; Lindh, Christian; Hernández Bonilla, David; Córdoba, Leonel; Wesseling, Catharina; Hoppin, Jane; Mergler, Donna (Elsevier Ltd, 2016-09-05)
      Certain pesticides may affect children's neurodevelopment. We assessed whether pesticide exposure was associated with impaired neurobehavioral outcomes in children aged 6e9 years. We conducted a cross-sectional study ...

    • Pesticide use in banana and plantain production and risk perception among local actors in Talamanca, Costa Rica 

      Barraza, Douglas; Jansen, Kees; van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Wesseling, Catharina (Elsevier, 2011-07)
      The Talamanca County in Costa Rica has large-scale banana and small-scale plantain production, probably causing pesticide exposure in indigenous children. We explored to what extent different community actors are aware ...

    • Social movements and risk perception: unions, churches, pesticides and bananas in Costa Rica 

      Jansen, Kees; van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Wesseling, Catharina; Barraza, Douglas (International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, vol. 19, no. 1 2013, 2013-11-12)
      Background: Between 1992 and 2010 in the Costa Rican Caribbean, a social movement coalition called Foro Emau´s sought to change people’s view on problems of high pesticide use in banana production. Objective: To understand ...

    • Volumen #12: Aplicaciones aéreas de mancozeb y concentraciones urinarias de etilentiourea (ETU) en mujeres embarazadas: 

      Berna van Wendel de, oode; Mora, Ana María; Córdoba, Leone; Cano, Juan Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Wesseling, Catharina; Ruepert, Clemens; Oberg, Mattias; Eskenazi, Brenda; Lindh, Christian H. (SALTRA / IRET-UNA, 2015-04-01)
      En Costa Rica, el fungicida mancozeb se aplica por vía área y de manera semanal en plantaciones de banano a gran escala (Figura 1). La toxicidad aguda del mancozeb y su principal metabolito, el etilentiourea (ETU), es baja ...