ArticlePloS one2015
Unconventional Gas and Oil Drilling Is Associated with Increased Hospital Utilization Rates.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A Systematic Review of the Epidemiologic Literature Assessing Health Outcomes in Populations Living near Oil and Natural Gas Operations: Study Quality and Future Recommendations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- Exploring the endocrine activity of air pollutants associated with unconventional oil and gas extraction.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2018Pooled it
- Exposure to coal-fired power plant emissions, unconventional natural gas development, and salivary miRNA profiles and asthma in children.Environmental research · 2026Article
- The human health effects of unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD): A scoping review of epidemiologic studies.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2024Article
- Cardiovascular health and proximity to urban oil drilling in Los Angeles, California.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2024Article
- Whose Future, Whose Security?: Unconventional Oil and Gas Extraction and the Economic Vulnerability and Forced Participation of Small-scale Property Owners.Resources policy · 2023Article
- Outcomes of the Halliburton Loophole: Chemicals regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act in US fracking disclosures, 2014-2021.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2023Article
- Assessing Exposure to Unconventional Oil and Gas Development: Strengths, Challenges, and Implications for Epidemiologic Research.Current environmental health reports · 2022Review
- Publicly available data reveals association between asthma hospitalizations and unconventional natural gas development in Pennsylvania.PloS one · 2022Article
- Exposure to a mixture of 23 chemicals associated with unconventional oil and gas operations alters immune response to challenge in adult mice.Journal of immunotoxicology · 2021Article
- Changes in neighborhood air quality after idling of an urban oil production site.Environmental science. Processes & impacts · 2021Article
- Acute myocardial infarction associated with unconventional natural gas development: A natural experiment.Environmental research · 2021Observational
- Natural gas development, flaring practices and paediatric asthma hospitalizations in Texas.International journal of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Endocrine disrupting activities and geochemistry of water resources associated with unconventional oil and gas activity.The Science of the total environment · 2020Article
- Petro-riskscapes and environmental distress in West Texas: Community perceptions of environmental degradation, threats, and loss.Energy research & social science · 2020Article
- Lagging and Flagging: Air Pollution, Shale Gas Exploration and the Interaction of Policy, Science, Ethics and Environmental Justice in England.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Critical evaluation of human health risks due to hydraulic fracturing in natural gas and petroleum production.Archives of toxicology · 2020Review
- Use of Tracer Elements for Estimating Community Exposure to Marcellus Shale Development Operations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- WellExplorer: an integrative resource linking hydraulic fracturing chemicals with hormonal pathways and geographic location.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2020Article
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Abstract
Over the past ten years, unconventional gas and oil drilling (UGOD) has markedly expanded in the United States. Despite substantial increases in well drilling, the health consequences of UGOD toxicant exposure remain unclear. This study examines an association between wells and healthcare use by zip code from 2007 to 2011 in Pennsylvania. Inpatient discharge databases from the Pennsylvania Healthcare Cost Containment Council were correlated with active wells by zip code in three counties in Pennsylvania. For overall inpatient prevalence rates and 25 specific medical categories, the association of inpatient prevalence rates with number of wells per zip code and, separately, with wells per km2 (separated into quantiles and defined as well density) were estimated using fixed-effects Poisson models. To account for multiple comparisons, a Bonferroni correction with associations of p<0.00096 was considered statistically significant. Cardiology inpatient prevalence rates were significantly associated with number of wells per zip code (p<0.00096) and wells per km2 (p<0.00096) while neurology inpatient prevalence rates were significantly associated with wells per km2 (p<0.00096). Furthermore, evidence also supported an association between well density and inpatient prevalence rates for the medical categories of dermatology, neurology, oncology, and urology. These data suggest that UGOD wells, which dramatically increased in the past decade, were associated with increased inpatient prevalence rates within specific medical categories in Pennsylvania. Further studies are necessary to address healthcare costs of UGOD and determine whether specific toxicants or combinations are associated with organ-specific responses.
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