Publications by authors named "J Daaboul"
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- The study investigates how environmental factors, combined with socioeconomic and lifestyle influences, affect cancer development in young adults, an area that hasn't been thoroughly explored.
- Researchers analyzed data on 31 environmental exposures and 10 common cancers in New York State across different age groups, revealing consistent risk factors like smoking and physical inactivity.
- The findings highlighted a significant link between certain air pollutants and increased cancer rates in younger adults, suggesting that environmental exposures play a crucial role in cancer development for this age group.
Objective: The SARS-CoV-2 (or COVID-19) pandemic has been propagating since December 2019, inducing a drastic increase in the prevalence of anxious and depressive disorders in the general population. Psychological trauma can partly explain these disorders. However, since psychiatric disorders also have an immuno-inflammatory component, the direct effects of the virus on the host's immune system, with a marked inflammatory response, but also the secondary inflammation to these psychosocial stressors, may cause the apparition or the worsening of psychiatric disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPerchlorate (ClO4-) has been detected in groundwater sources in numerous communities in California and other parts of the United States, raising concerns about potential impacts on health. For California communities where ClO4- was tested in 1997 and 1998, we evaluated the prevalence of primary congenital hypothyroidism (PCH) and high thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels among the 342,257 California newborns screened in 1998. We compared thyroid function results among newborns from 24 communities with average ClO4- concentrations in drinking water>5 microg/L (n=50,326) to newborns from 287 communities with average concentrations