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    • Exposure to multiple pesticides and neurobehavioral outcomes among smallholder farmers in Uganda 

      Fuhrimann, Samuel; Farnham, Andrea; Staudacher, Philipp; Atuhaire, Aggrey; Kromhout, Hans; Mora, Ana Maria; Manfioletti, Tiziana; Niwagaba, Charles B.; Namirembe, Sarah; Mugweri, Jonathan; Winkler, Mirko; Portengen, Lutzen (Elsevier, 2021-03-20)
      Background: Multiple epidemiological studies have shown that exposure to single pesticide active ingredients or chemical groups is associated with adverse neurobehavioral outcomes in farmers. In agriculture, exposure to ...

    • Exposure to obesogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals and obesity among youth of Latino or Hispanic origin in the United States and Latin America: A lifecourse perspective 

      Perng, Wei; Cantoral, Alejandra; Soria Contreras, Diana Cristina; Betanzos, Larissa; Kordas, Katarzyna; Liu, Yun; Mora, Ana Maria; Corvalan, Camila; Pereira, Anita; Cardoso, Marly; Chavarro, Jorge; Breton, Carrie; Meeker, John; Harley, Kim; Eskenazi, Brenda; Peterson, Karen; Téllez Rojo, Martha (Wiley, 2021-02-26)
      Following a 2019 workshop led by the Center for Global Health Studies at the Fogarty International Center on the topic of childhood obesity prevention and research synergies transpiring from cross-border collaborations, ...

    • Fatal occupational injuries in Nicaragua, 2005 

      López Bonilla, Indiana Mercedes; Flores Urbina, Lucía; Partanen, Timo; Wesseling, Catharina (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, León., 2011)
      We attempt to estimate the rate of fatal occupational injuries (FOI) in Nicaragua for 2005, using 10 incomplete data sources. Based on the 173 identified FOIs, the crude empirical FOI rate estimate was 8.3 per 100,000 ...

    • Field testing passive air samplers for current use pesticides in a tropical environment 

      Gouin, Todd; Wania, Frank; Ruepert, Clemens; Castillo, Luisa E. (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica., 2008)
      Air was sampled for one year in the central valley of Costa Rica using an active high-volume sampler as well as passive samplers (PAS) based on polyurethane foam (PUF) disks and XAD-resin filled mesh cylinders. Extracts ...

    • Heat exposure in sugarcane harvesters in Costa Rica 

      Crowe, Jennifer; Wesseling, Catharina; Román Solano, Bryan; Pinto Umaña, Manfred; Robles Ramírez, Andrés; Kjellstrom, Tord; Morales, David; Nilsson, Maria (Wiley Periodicals, 2013)
      Background Occupational heat stress is a major concern in sugarcane production and has been hypothesized as a causal factor of a chronic kidney disease epidemic in Central America. This study described working conditions ...

    • Heat exposure in sugarcane workers in Costa Rica during the non-harvest season 

      Crowe, Jennifer; Moya-Bonilla, José Manuel; Román-Solano, Bryan; Robles-Ramírez, Andrés (Global Health Action, 2010)
      This observational pilot study was carried out at three sugarcane companies in Costa Rica. Its main objective was to determine the potential for heat stress conditions for workers in one sugarcane-growing region in Costa ...

    • Heat-Related Symptoms in Sugarcane Harvesters 

      Crowe, Jennifer; Nilsson, Lena Maria; Kjellstrom, Tord; Wesseling, Catharina (Wiley, 2015-02-26)
      Background: Exposure to heat stress is a documented risk for Central American sugarcane harvesters. However, little is known about heat-related illness in this population. Methods: This study examined the frequency of ...

    • Importación de plaguicidas y peligros en salud en América Central durante el periodo 2005 - 2009 

      Berrocal Montero, Silvia Elena; Ramírez-Muñoz, Fernando; Cruz Malavassi, Elba de la; Bravo Durán, Virya; Canto Mai, Nonato; Tatis Ramírez, Anabel; Mejía Merino, Winston; Rodríguez Altamirano, Teresa (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2015-07-01)
      Se analizaron datos de importación de plaguicidas agrícolas en América Central, para el quinquenio 2005-2009 para el monitoreo de peligros en salud. La metodología usada ya fue publicada para el análisis del quinquenio ...

    • Incidence of childhood cancer in Costa Rica, 2000–2014: An international perspective 

      Erdmann, Friederike; Li, Tengfei; Luta, George; Giddings, Brenda M.; Torres Alvarado, Guillermo; Steliarova-Foucher, Eva; Schüz, Joachim; Mora, Ana Maria (Elsevier, 2018-10-18)
      Background: Estimating childhood cancer incidence globally is hampered by a lack of reliable data from lowand middle-income countries. Costa Rica is one of the few middle-income countries (MIC) with a long-term high quality ...

    • Incidence of childhood cancer in Costa Rica, 2000–2014: An international perspective 

      Erdmann, Friederike; Tengfei, Li; Luta, George; Giddings, Brenda M.; Torres Alvarado, Guillermo; Steliarova-Foucher, Eva; Schüz, Joachim; Mora, Ana Maria (Elsevier, 2018-10)
      Background: Estimating childhood cancer incidence globally is hampered by a lack of reliable data from low- and middle-income countries. Costa Rica is one of the few middle-income countries (MIC) with a long-term high ...

    • Informal employment and health status in Central America 

      López-Ruiz, María del Carmen; ARTAZCOZ, LUCIA; Martínez, José Miguel; Rojas, Marianela; Benavides, Fernando G (Springer Nature, 2015-07-24)
      Background: Informal employment is assumed to be an important but seldom studied social determinant of health, affecting a large number of workers around the world. Although informal employment arrangements constitute a ...

    • Informality, social citizenship, and wellbeing among migrant workers in Costa Rica in the context of COVID-19 

      Poirier, Mathieu; Barraza, Douglas; Caxaj, C. Susana; Martínez, Ana María; Hard, Julie; Montoya, Felipe (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2022-05-20)
      Costa Rica is home to 557,000 migrants, whose disproportionate exposure to precarious, dangerous, and informal work has resulted in persistent inequities in health and wellbeing in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. We ...

    • Lower tier toxicity risk assessment of agriculture pesticides detected on the Río Madre de Dios watershed, Costa Rica 

      Arias-Andrés, M.; Rämö, Robert; Mena Torres, F.; Ugalde, R.; Grandas, L.; Ruepert, Clemens; Castillo, L. E.; van den brink, Paul; Gunnarsson, J. S. (Springer, 2016-10-25)
      Costa Rica is a tropical country with one of the highest biodiversity on Earth. It also has an intensive agriculture, and pesticide runoff from banana and pineapple plantations may cause a high toxicity risk to non-target ...

    • Manganese in teeth and neurodevelopment in young Mexican-American children 

      Gunier, Robert; Arora, Manish; jerrett, michael; Bradman, Asa; Harley, Kim; Mora, Ana Maria; Kogut, Katherine; Hubbard, Alan; Austin, Christine; Holland, Nina; Eskenazi, Brenda (Elsevier, 2015-10)
      Introduction: Manganese (Mn) is an essential nutrient but higher exposure has been associated with poorer neurodevelopment in children. Methods: We measured Mn levels in prenatal (Mnpre) (n=197) and postnatal (Mnpost) ...

    • 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 ...

    • Mesoamerican nephropathy: Geographical distribution and time trends of chronic kidney disease mortality between 1970 and 2012 in Costa Rica 

      Wesseling, Catharina; van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Crowe, Jennifer; Rittner, Ralf (BMJ Publishing Group, 2014-06-23)
      Mesoamerican nephropathy is an epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) unrelated to traditional causes, mostly observed in sugarcane workers. We analysed CKD mortality in Costa Rica to explore when and where the epidemic ...

    • Microplastics: New substrates for heterotrophic activity contribute to altering organic matter cycles in aquatic ecosystems 

      Therese Kettner, Marie; Grossart, Hans-Peter; Arias Andrés, Maria de Jesús; Miki, Takeshi (Elsevier, 2018-09-01)
      Heterotrophic microbes with the capability to process considerable amounts of organic matter can colonize microplastic particles (MP) in aquatic ecosystems. Weather colonization of microorganisms on MP will alter eco ...

    • Mortality among a Cohort of Banana Plantation Workers in Costa Rica 

      Guardado, Jorge; Keifer, Matthew; Wesseling, Catharina; Hoffman, Jonathan (Taylor & Francis, 2006)
      The nematocide 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP), widely used in Costa Rica during the late 1960s and 1970s, causes sterility in men and is a possible carcinogen. Mortality among a cohort of Costa Rican banana plantation ...

    • Mortality and Cancer Incidence of Workers in Finnish Road Paving Companies 

      Kauppinen, Timo; Heikkila, Pirjo; Partanen, Timo; Virtanen, Simo V.; Pukkala, Eero; Burstyn, Igor; Ferro, Gilles; Boffetta, Paolo (Wiley-Liss, Inc., 2003)
      Background This study, a component of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Multicentric Study on Cancer Risk Among European Asphalt Workers, aimed at identifying major mortality risks among workers in ...

    • Nefropatía mesoamericana: revisión breve basada en el segundo taller del Consorcio para el estudio de la Epidemia de Nefropatía en Centroamérica y México (CENCAM) 

      García-Trabanino, Ramón; Cerdas, Manuel; Madero, Magdalena; Jakobsson, Kristina; Barnoya, Joaquin; Crowe, Jennifer; Jarquín, Emmanuel; Guzmán-Quilo, Carolina; Correa-Rotter, Ricardo (Elsevier, 2016)
      Mesoamerican nephropathy (MeN) is a form of endemic chronic kidney disease (CKD) unrelated to diabetes or hypertension and its causes are still undetermined. Clinically, patients with MeN have no or only mild proteinuria ...