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ArticleEnvironmental science. Processes & impacts2025

Fine particulate matter from burning oil and gas and associated neurological symptoms among Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup workers.

Christina L Norris, Dale P Sandler, Gregory C Pratt, Mark R Stenzel, Patricia A Stewart, W Braxton Jackson, Kate E Christenbury, Emily J Werder, Caroline P Groth, Sudipto Banerjee and 2 more

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Article in Environmental science. Processes & impacts, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Christina L NorrisDepartment of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. larry.engel@unc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8646-1518
Dale P SandlerEpidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
Gregory C PrattDivision of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Mark R StenzelExposure Assessment Applications, LLC, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Patricia A StewartStewart Exposure Assessments, LLC, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
W Braxton JacksonSocial & Scientific Systems, Inc., Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Kate E ChristenburySocial & Scientific Systems, Inc., Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Emily J WerderEpidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
Caroline P GrothDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, West Virginia University School of Public Health, Morgantown, WV, USA.
Sudipto BanerjeeDepartment of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Kaitlyn G LawrenceEpidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
Lawrence S EngelDepartment of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. larry.engel@unc.edu.

Funding

Neurological Effects of Environmental Styrene and BTEX Exposure in a Gulf of Mexico CohortR01ES031127 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BAEK, BOK HAENG, ENGEL, LAWRENCE STUART · 2020 to 2023
$2.0M
NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES031127
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Burning and flaring of oil and gas following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill generated high airborne concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM

Indexed as

Air PollutantsNervous System DiseasesOccupational ExposureParticulate MatterPetroleum PollutionAdultFemaleGulf of AmericaHumansMaleMiddle AgedAir PollutantsParticulate Matter

Identifiers

PMID39815820
PMCPMC11843438

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