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Arsenic is strongly associated with lung and skin cancer in humans, and may cause other internal cancers as well. Skin lesions, peripheral neuropathy and anemia are hallmarks of chronic arsenic ingestion.
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Lead may cause irreversible neurologic damage, renal disease, cardiovascular effects, and reproductive toxicity. Blood lead levels once considered safe are now considered hazardous, with no known threshold.
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Environmental Triggers of Asthma
This case study addresses the role environmental factors play in the etiology, triggering, and exacerbation of asthma. It is not intended to teach the clinical treatments of asthma to primary health care providers.
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Pediatric Environmental Health
Pediatricians and other child health care providers need to develop the expertise necessary to take an environmental history, deliver anticipatory guidance, and conduct appropriate risk-based laboratory tests for environmental illnesses.
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Benzene is an important commercial commodity that, because of its frequent use, has become widespread in the environment of developed countries. Benzene in the workplace has been associated with aplastic anemia and leukemia.
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Asbestos exposure is associated with asbestosis, mesothelioma, and lung cancer, and might cause cancer at extrathoracic sites.
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Occupational exposure to chromium has been associated with increased incidence of lung cancer.
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Infants younger than 4 months of age are at particular risk of nitrate toxicity from contaminated water.
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PCBs cause cancer in animals and are probably carcinogenic in humans. Recent evidence suggests that PCBs might also have adverse reproductive, developmental and endocrine effects.
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Radiation Exposure from Iodine 131
Many people were exposed to radiation fallout from iodine 131 from multiple sources. Many of those exposed were children younger than 10 years of age. This exposure put those children at risk for thyroid and parathyroid disease and cancer of the thyroid.
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Radon might be second only to smoking as a cause of lung cancer. The combination of smoking and radon exposure results in an especially serious health risk.
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Cluster events are groupings of a particular disorder or a class of disorders that appear unusually frequent in a place.
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The primary care clinician can play an important role in detecting, treating and preventing disease due to toxic exposure by taking a thorough exposure history.
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TCE is a central nervous system depressant and a suspected hepatotoxin in humans. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers TCE an animal carcinogen and a potential cancer hazard to humans.
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Many organic solvents have great addictive potential; toluene is the most commonly abused hydrocarbon solvent, primarily through “glue sniffing.”
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