Background: Socio-economic inequalities in the living environment are major contributing
factors to health inequalities. Consequently, protecting children from undesirable …

Background The research question how contextual factors of neighbourhood environments
influence individual health has gained increasing attention in public health research. Both …

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… and MEHP in 95%, 63%, 61%, 58% of the 350 single samples, with concentrations ranging
from 15.0 to 1301 ng/g fresh weight, 10.0 to 2764 ng/g fw, 10 to 155 ng/g fw and 0.1 to 4.9 ng/…

OBJECTIVE. Prophylactic feeding guidelines recommend a delayed introduction of solid
foods for the prevention of atopic diseases. Scientific evidence for this is scarce. This study …

The current authors examined whether mite and cat allergen and bacterial endotoxin levels
in dust of the mothers' mattresses were associated with cord blood immunoglobulin (Ig)E (CB…

… 6.6) ng/g lw, 1.8 (5.3) ng/g lw, 0.8 (1.9) ng/g lw and 0.6 (2.4) ng/g lw Congener BDE 183 was
found to exceed the LOD only in two samples, at levels of 2.31 ng/g lw and 0.54 ng/g lw The …

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versus 44.2 μg/g creatinine, p=… 2cx-MMHP (8.81 versus 7.83 μg/g creatinine, p=0.023), and …

It has been hypothesized that cesarean delivery might have an impact on the development
of atopic diseases because of its gut flora modulating properties. In the present study, we …

In Germany the impact of socioeconomic factors on environmental exposures and adverse
housing conditions has been rarely studied up to now. The aim of our study was to assess …