Browsing Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra y el Mar by Author "Eskenazi, Brenda"
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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 Maria; Cordoba, Leonel; Cano, Juan Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Faniband, Moosa; Wesseling, Catharina; Ruepert, Clemens; Öberg, Mattias; Eskenazi, Brenda; Mergler, Donna; Lindh, Christian (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2014-12-01)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 banana ... -
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 ... -
Biomarkers of manganese exposure in pregnant women and children living in an agricultural community in California
Gunier, Robert; Mora, Ana María; Smith, Donald; Arora, Manish; Austin, Christine; Eskenazi, Brenda; Bradman, Asa (American Chemical Society, 2014)Manganese (Mn) is an essential nutrient but at high exposure levels is a neurotoxicant. There is no wellvalidated biomarker to assess perinatal Mn exposure. A total of 75 mother-child pairs provided blood, urine, and/or ... -
Blood and hair manganese concentrations in pregnant women from the infants' environmental health study (ISA) in Costa Rica
Mora, Ana María; van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Mergler, Donna; Córdoba, Leonel; Cano, Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Smith, Donald R; Lindh, Christian H; Bradman, Asa; Eskenazi, Brenda; Menezes-Filho, José A.; Lundh, Thomas (American Chemical Society, 2014-03)Manganese (Mn), an essential nutrient, is a neurotoxicant at high concentrations. We measured Mn concentrations in repeated blood and hair samples collected from 449 pregnant women living near banana plantations with ... -
Environmental Health Threats to Latino Migrant Farmworkers
Castillo, Federico; Mora, Ana M.; Kayser, Georgia L.; Vanos, Jennifer; Hyland, Carly; Yang, Audrey R.; Eskenazi, Brenda (Annual Reviews Inc., 2021-01-04)Approximately 75% of farmworkers in the United States are Latino migrants, and about 50% of hired farmworkers do not have authorization to work in the United States. Farmworkers face numerous chemical, physical, and ... -
Maternal blood and hair manganese concentrations, fetal growth, and length of gestation in the ISA cohort in Costa Rica
Mora, Ana Maria; van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Mergler, Donna; Cordoba, Leonel; Cano, Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Smith, Donald R.; Menezes-Filho, José; Eskenazi, Brenda (Environmental Research, 2015-01)Background: Animal studies have shown that both deficiency and excess manganese (Mn) may result in decreased fetal size and weight, but human studies have reported inconsistent results. Methods: We examined the association ... -
Maternal blood and hair manganese concentrations, fetal growth, and length of gestation in the ISA cohort in Costa Rica
Mora, Ana María; van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Mergler, Donna; Córdoba, Leonel; Cano, Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Smith, Donald R; Menezes-Filho, José A.; Eskenazi, Brenda (Elsevier, 2015)Background: Animal studies have shown that both deficiency and excess manganese (Mn) may result in decreased fetal size and weight, but human studies have reported inconsistent results. Methods: We examined the association ... -
Prenatal and postnatal manganese teeth levels and neurodevelopment at 7, 9, and 10.5 years in the CHAMACOS cohort
Mora, Ana Maria; Arora, Manish; Harley, Kim; Kogut, Katherine; Parra, Kimberly; Hernández-Bonilla , David; Gunier, Robert; Bradman, Asa; Smith, Donald R.; Eskenazi, Brenda (Elsevier, 2015-11)Background: Numerous cross-sectional studies of school-age children have observed that exposure to manganese (Mn) adversely affects neurodevelopment. However, few prospective studies have looked at the effects of both ... -
Prenatal DDT and DDE exposure and child IQ in the CHAMACOS cohort
Gaspar, Fraser; Harley, Kim; Kogut, Katherine; Chevrier, Jonathan; Mora, Ana Maria; Sjödin, Andreas; Eskenazi, Brenda (Elsevier, 2015-12)Although banned in most countries, dichlorodiphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) continues to be used for vector control in some malaria endemic areas. Previous findings from the Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and ... -
Prenatal mancozeb exposure, excess manganese, and neurodevelopment at 1 year of age in the Infants' Environmental Health (ISA) study
Mora, Ana Maria; Cordoba, Leonel; Cano, Juan C.; Hernandez-Bonilla, David; Pardo, Larissa; Smith, Donald R.; Menezes-Filho, José A.; Mergler, Donna; Lindh, Christian H.; Eskenazi, Brenda; van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Schnaas, Lourdes (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2018-05-29)BACKGROUND: Although growing evidence suggests that early-life excess manganese (Mn) impairs neurodevelopment, data on the neurodevelopmental effects of mancozeb, a fungicide containing Mn, and its main metabolite ... -
Prenatal pesticide exposure and respiratory health outcomes in the first year of life: Results from the infants’ Environmental Health (ISA) study
Mora, Ana Maria; Hoppin, Jane; Cordoba, Leonel; Cano, Juan Camilo; Soto-Martínez, Manuel; Eskenazi, Brenda; Lindh, Christian; van Wendel de Joode, Berna (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2020-01-29)Background: Growing evidence suggests that pesticide exposure may influence respiratory health, but data in young children are very limited. We examined the association of prenatal pesticide exposure with lower respiratory ... -
Prevalence and Clinical Profi le of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection among Farmworkers, California, USA, June–November 2020
Mora, Ana Maria; Andrejko, Kristin; Lewnard, Joseph; Nkwocha, Oguchi; Kogut, Katherine; Rauch, Stephen A .; Morga, Norma; Hernandez, Samantha; Wong, Marcus; Huen, Karen; Jewell, Nicholas; Parra, Kimberly L.; Holland, Nina; Harris, Eva; Cuevas, Maximiliano; Eskenazi, Brenda (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021-05)During the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, farmworkers in the United States are consid ered essential personnel and continue in-person work. We conducted prospective surveillance for severe acut ... -
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 ... -
Volumen #12: Factores determinantes de las concentraciones maternas de manganeso durante el embarazo, y su asociación con el crecimiento fetal en la cohorte Infantes y Salud Ambiental (ISA) en Costa Rica
Mora, An; Berna van Wendel de, Joode; Mergler, Donna; Córdoba, Leonel; Cano, Camilo; Donald, Smith; Menezes, José; Lundh, Thomas; Lindh, Christian; Asa, Bradman; Eskenazi, Brenda (SALTRA / IRET-UNA, 2015-04-01)Resumen de los resultados \nLos fungicidas etilenobisditiocarbamatos (EBDC, por sus siglas en inglés) mancozeb y maneb contienen cantidades sustanciales de Mn (21% en peso) y, consecuentemente, pueden constituir una fuente ...