ArticleJournal of community health2012
Self-reported cancer rates in two rural areas of West Virginia with and without mountaintop coal mining.
Article in Journal of community health, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Systematic review of community health impacts of mountaintop removal mining.Environment international · 2017Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Adult asthma associated with roadway density and housing in rural Appalachia: the Mountain Air Project (MAP).Environmental health : a global access science source · 2023Article
- Increased Dementia Mortality in West Virginia Counties with Mountaintop Removal Mining?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and Emergent Cases of Psychological Disorder in Kentucky.Community mental health journal · 2017Article
- Atmospheric particulate matter in proximity to mountaintop coal mines: sources and potential environmental and human health impacts.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2015Article
- Appalachian mountaintop mining particulate matter induces neoplastic transformation of human bronchial epithelial cells and promotes tumor formation.Environmental science & technology · 2014Article
- Atmospheric particulate matter size distribution and concentration in West Virginia coal mining and non-mining areas.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2014Article
- Appalachian women's perspectives on breast and cervical cancer screening.Rural and remote health · 2013Article
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4 authors.
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Abstract
Mountaintop coal mining in the Appalachian region in the United States causes significant environmental damage to air and water. Serious health disparities exist for people who live in coal mining portions of Appalachia, but little previous research has examined disparities specifically in mountaintop mining communities. A community-based participatory research study was designed and implemented to collect information on cancer rates in a rural mountaintop mining area compared to a rural non-mining area of West Virginia. A door-door health interview collected data from 773 adults. Self-reported cancer rates were significantly higher in the mining versus the non-mining area after control for respondent age, sex, smoking, occupational history, and family cancer history (odds ratio = 2.03, 95% confidence interval = 1.32-3.13). Mountaintop mining is linked to increased community cancer risk. Efforts to reduce cancer and other health disparities in Appalachia must focus on mountaintop mining portions of the region.
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