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ReviewEnvironmental health perspectives2010

Breaking patterns of environmentally influenced disease for health risk reduction: immune perspectives.

Rodney R Dietert, Jamie C DeWitt, Dori R Germolec, Judith T Zelikoff

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Review in Environmental health perspectives, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 100 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Guardians under Siege: Exploring Pollution's Effects on Human Immunity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  2. Public Health Risks of PFAS-Related Immunotoxicity Are Real.Current environmental health reports · 2024
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  12. Role of Immune and Autoimmune Dysfunction in Schizophrenia.Handbook of behavioral neuroscience · 2016
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  17. The Microbiome and Sustainable Healthcare.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2015
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  20. The effects of environmental toxins on allergic inflammation.Allergy, asthma & immunology research · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Rodney R DietertDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. rrd1@cornell.edu
Jamie C DeWitt
Dori R Germolec
Judith T Zelikoff
Cornell University · USEast Carolina University · USNational Institutes of Health · USNew York University · US

Funding

RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES (CENTER GRANT)P30ES000260 · NIEHS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI GOLDBERG, JUDITH D. · 1985 to 2020
$26.1M
Intramural NIH HHSNIEHS NIH HHS ES00260NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES000260
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDiseases rarely, if ever, occur in isolation. Instead, most represent part of a more complex web or "pattern" of conditions that are connected via underlying biological mechanisms and processes, emerge across a lifetime, and have been identified with the aid of large medical databases.

objectiveWe have described how an understanding of patterns of disease may be used to develop new strategies for reducing the prevalence and risk of major immune-based illnesses and diseases influenced by environmental stimuli.

findingsExamples of recently defined patterns of diseases that begin in childhood include not only metabolic syndrome, with its characteristics of inflammatory dysregulation, but also allergic, autoimmune, recurrent infection, and other inflammatory patterns of disease. The recent identification of major immune-based disease patterns beginning in childhood suggests that the immune system may play an even more important role in determining health status and health care needs across a lifetime than was previously understood.

conclusionsFocusing on patterns of disease, as opposed to individual conditions, offers two important venues for environmental health risk reduction. First, prevention of developmental immunotoxicity and pediatric immune dysfunction can be used to act against multiple diseases. Second, pattern-based treatment of entryway diseases can be tailored with the aim of disrupting the entire disease pattern and reducing the risk of later-life illnesses connected to underlying immune dysfunction. Disease-pattern-based evaluation, prevention, and treatment will require a change from the current approach for both immune safety testing and pediatric disease management.

Indexed as

ChildEnvironmental ExposureEnvironmental MedicineEnvironmental PollutantsHumansImmune System DiseasesMetabolic DiseasesRisk AssessmentEnvironmental Pollutants

Identifiers

PMID20483701
PMCPMC2920092
OpenAlexW2008965066

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