Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and lung cancer risk (2008)
Beelen, Rob, Hoek, Gerard, Goldbohm, R. Alexandra, Fischer, Paul, Schouten, Leo J., ...
International study of temperature, heat and urban mortality: the 'ISOTHURM' project (2008)
McMichael, Anthony J, Wilkinson, Paul, Kovats, R Sari, Pattenden, Sam, Hajat, Shakoor, Armstrong, Ben, ...
Background This study describes heat- and cold-related mortality in 12 urban populations in low- and middle-income countries, thereby extending knowledge of how diverse populations, in non-OECD...
Hashizume, Masahiro, Armstrong, Ben, Hajat, Shakoor, Wagatsuma, Yukiko, Faruque, Abu SG, Hayashi, Taiichi, ...
Background We estimated the effects of rainfall and temperature on the number of non-cholera diarrhoea cases and identified population factors potentially affecting vulnerability to the effect of the...
Declining Vulnerability to Temperature-related Mortality in London over the 20th Century (2006)
Carson, Claire, Hajat, Shakoor, Armstrong, Ben, Wilkinson, Paul
The degree to which population vulnerability to outdoor temperature is reduced by improvements in infrastructure, technology, and general health has an important bearing on what realistically can be...
Socioeconomic differentials in the temperature-mortality relationship in Sao Paulo, Brazil (2003)
Gouveia, Nelson, Hajat, Shakoor, Armstrong, Ben
Background We investigated the impact of environmental temperature on mortality in São Paulo, Brazil, and examined differences in the temperature–mortality relationship with respect to cause, age...
VAN TONGEREN, MARTIE, NIEUWENHUIJSEN, MARK J., GARDINER, KERRY, ARMSTRONG, BEN, VRIJHEID, MARTINE, DOLK, HELEN, ...
A study to assess the association between the prevalence of hypospadias and maternal occupational exposure to potential endocrine-disrupting chemicals was carried out using data from the congenital...
Garcia-Peña, Carmen, Thorogood, Margaret, Armstrong, Ben, Reyes-Frausto, Sandra, Muñoz, Onofre
Background In Mexico, hypertension is a major cause of disability and death in the elderly, but the most effective way to promote behaviour change in old people is unknown. Low resource interventions...
Armstrong, Ben, Tremblay, Claude, Baris, Dalsu, Thériault, Gilles
The authors report the results of a case-cohort study of 338 lung cancer deaths in 1950-1988 and a random sample (sub-cohort) of 1,138 from among 16,297 men who had worked at least one year between...
Cohort Study of Silicon Carbide Production Workers (1994)
Infante-Rivard, Claire, Dufresne, André, Armstrong, Ben, Bouchard, Paul, Thériault, Gilles
Silicon carbide is produced by a chemical reaction at high temperature between free crystalline silica and petroleum coke. The process generates airborne fibers and fibrogenic dusts such as α-quartz...
Validation Studies using an Alloyed Gold Standard (1993)
Wacholder, Sholom, Armstrong, Ben, Hartge, Patricia
A key assumption made when using a validation study to correct an estimate of relative risk for bias due to misdassification or measurement error is that the available measure, known to have error...
In planning simple cohort mortality studies, researchers need to know what size of relative risk may be confidently detected with the projected size of the cohort and length of follow-up. Although...
Mortality in people taking selegiline: observational study
Thorogood, Margaret, Armstrong, Ben, Nichols, Tom, Hollowell, Jen
Objective: To evaluate mortality among patients with Parkinson’s disease receiving different treatment.
Malaria in Britain: Past, present, and future
Kuhn, Katrin Gaardbo, Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid H., Armstrong, Ben, Davies, Clive R.
There has been much recent speculation that global warming may allow the reestablishment of malaria transmission in previously endemic areas such as Europe and the United States. In this report we...
Vulnerability to winter mortality in elderly people in Britain: population based study
Wilkinson, Paul, Pattenden, Sam, Armstrong, Ben, Fletcher, Astrid, Kovats, R Sari, Mangtani, Punam, ...
Objective To examine the determinants of vulnerability to winter mortality in elderly British people.
Preventing neural tube defects in Europe: population based study
Busby, Araceli, Abramsky, Lenore, Dolk, Helen, Armstrong, Ben
Plight of Afghan people must not be forgotten
Armstrong, Ben, Coleman, Michel, Davies, Clive, Elbourne, Diana, Fletcher, Astrid, Grundy, Emily, ...
Lung Cancer Risk after Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: A Review and Meta-Analysis
Armstrong, Ben, Hutchinson, Emma, Unwin, John, Fletcher, Tony
Typical polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures are established lung carcinogens, but the quantitative exposure–response relationship is less clear. To clarify this relationship we conducted a...
Mortality in people taking selegiline: observational study
Thorogood, Margaret, Armstrong, Ben, Nichols, Tom, Hollowell, Jen
Objective: To evaluate mortality among patients with Parkinson’s disease receiving different treatment.
Malaria in Britain: Past, present, and future
Kuhn, Katrin Gaardbo, Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid H., Armstrong, Ben, Davies, Clive R.
There has been much recent speculation that global warming may allow the reestablishment of malaria transmission in previously endemic areas such as Europe and the United States. In this report we...
Vulnerability to winter mortality in elderly people in Britain: population based study
Wilkinson, Paul, Pattenden, Sam, Armstrong, Ben, Fletcher, Astrid, Kovats, R Sari, Mangtani, Punam, ...
Objective To examine the determinants of vulnerability to winter mortality in elderly British people.
Preventing neural tube defects in Europe: population based study
Busby, Araceli, Abramsky, Lenore, Dolk, Helen, Armstrong, Ben
Plight of Afghan people must not be forgotten
Armstrong, Ben, Coleman, Michel, Davies, Clive, Elbourne, Diana, Fletcher, Astrid, Grundy, Emily, ...
Lung Cancer Risk after Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: A Review and Meta-Analysis
Armstrong, Ben, Hutchinson, Emma, Unwin, John, Fletcher, Tony
Typical polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures are established lung carcinogens, but the quantitative exposure–response relationship is less clear. To clarify this relationship we conducted a...
Comments on the papers by Guthrie and Sheppard, Best "et al.", Chambers and Steel and Darby "et al."
Long-Term Effects of Traffic-Related Air Pollution on Mortality in a Dutch Cohort (NLCS-AIR Study)
Beelen, Rob, Hoek, Gerard, Van Den Brandt, Piet A., Goldbohm, R. Alexandra, Fischer, Paul, Schouten, Leo J., ...