Search

Your search keyword '"Rajen N. Naidoo"' showing total 16 results
Start Over Author "Rajen N. Naidoo" Publisher environmental health perspectives
16 results on '"Rajen N. Naidoo"'

5. Short Term Seasonal Effect of Ambient Air Pollutants and Airborne Fungal Spores on the Lung Function of School Children in Western Cape, South Africa: A Panel Study

Author

Toyib Olaniyan, Nino Kuenzli, Martin Röösli, Rajen N. Naidoo, Joy Leaner, Dilys Berman, Mohamed F. Jeebhay, Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie, Kees de Hoogh, and Bhawoodien Parker

Subjects
Pollutant, Oceanography, Western cape, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental science, Lung function, General Environmental Science, Ambient air, Spore, Term (time)
Published
2018
Full Text
View/download PDF

6. Asthma-Related Outcomes Associated with Indoor Air Pollutants from a Survey of School Children Residing in Informal Settlement Households of the Western Cape Province of South Africa

Author

Mohamed F. Jeebhay, Martin Röösli, Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie, Nino Kuenzli, Joy Leaner, Rajen N. Naidoo, Bhawoodien Parker, Kees de Hoogh, and Toyib Olaniyan

Subjects
Geography, medicine, Western cape, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, medicine.disease, Settlement (litigation), Socioeconomics, General Environmental Science, Asthma, Indoor air pollutants
Published
2018
Full Text
View/download PDF

7. Exposure to Indoor Air Pollutants and Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Author

Rajen N. Naidoo, Prakash Jeena, Lars Barregard, and Nkosana Jafta

Subjects
Tuberculosis, Indoor air quality, Pulmonary tuberculosis, Environmental health, medicine, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental science, medicine.disease, General Environmental Science, Indoor air pollutants
Abstract

Background/Aim: There is increasing evidence that indoor air pollution increases the risk for tuberculosis. These studies have used proxy measures of exposure. Our study aim was to determine associ...

Published
2018
Full Text
View/download PDF

8. Daily variations in respiratory symptoms associated with fluctuations in air pollutants among schoolchildren

Author

Stuart Batterman, Graciela Mentz, Rajen N. Naidoo, and Thomas G. Robins

Subjects
Pollutant, Air pollutants, Environmental health, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental science, Respiratory system, Metropolitan area, General Environmental Science, Ambient air
Abstract

Introduction: To investigate associations between exposures to common ambient air pollutants and variation in daily respiratory symptoms among children in a large metropolitan city Methods: The stu...

Published
2016
Full Text
View/download PDF

9. Indoor air quality of low and middle income urban households in South Africa

Author

Nkosana Jafta, Prakash Jeena, and Rajen N. Naidoo

Subjects
Idle, Indoor air quality, Geography, Environmental health, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Developing country, lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins), Low and middle income, General Environmental Science
Abstract

Introduction: Indoor air pollution in low and idle income household in developing countries has been associated with respiratory illnesses and recently there have been associated with TB. use of bi...

Published
2016
Full Text
View/download PDF

10. Lessons Learned from Land Use Regression Modelling in an Industrialised region in a developing country

Author

Kees Meliefste, Rob Beelen, Lisa F. Ramsay, Sheena Muttoo, and Rajen N. Naidoo

Subjects
Geography, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Developing country, Land use regression, Environmental planning, General Environmental Science, Exposure assessment
Abstract

Introduction. Land use regression modelling has emerged as a promising technique in exposure assessment. Its use in developing countries is limited. This study reports the development of a model in...

Published
2016
Full Text
View/download PDF

11. A single nucleotide polymorphism in the EPHX1 gene, TYR113HIS T/C rs1051740, is associated with low birth weights in neonates exposed to pollution in utero

Author

Rajen N. Naidoo, Anil A. Chuturgoon, Prithiksha Ramkaran, Pragalathan Naidoo, Sheena Muttoo, and Alisa Phulukdaree

Subjects
Genetics, Pollution, media_common.quotation_subject, EPHX1 Gene, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, EPHX1, Biology, In utero, Microsomal epoxide hydrolase, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Gene, NOx, General Environmental Science, media_common
Abstract

Aim: To investigate the association between pollution, specifically to oxides of nitrogen (NOx), and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the microsomal epoxide hydrolase 1 (EPHX1) gene, HIS13...

Published
2016
Full Text
View/download PDF

12. DNA Methylation and the in utero environment in a mother-child cohort from Durban, South Africa

Author

Rajen N. Naidoo, Kareshma Asharam, Dana C. Dolinoy, Stuart Batterman, Poovendhree Reddy, and Jaclyn M. Goodrich

Subjects
Epigenetic programming, In utero, Offspring, Cohort, DNA methylation, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Physiology, Biology, reproductive and urinary physiology, General Environmental Science
Abstract

Introduction: The in utero environment has the potential to influence epigenetic programming and subsequently the health of the offspring. Even though African pregnant women are exposed to multiple...

Published
2016
Full Text
View/download PDF

13. Air pollution and associated serial lung function and respiratory symptoms among a panel of schoolchildren

Author

Shumani Phaswana and Rajen N. Naidoo

Subjects
Pollution, business.industry, Environmental health, media_common.quotation_subject, Air pollution, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Medicine, Respiratory system, business, medicine.disease_cause, Lung function, General Environmental Science, media_common
Abstract

Introduction: To describe, among a panel of schoolchildren resident in a high pollution region, the prevalence of adverse respiratory outcomes, and to investigate associations between daily exposur...

Published
2016
Full Text
View/download PDF

14. Air Pollution And Other Risk Factors For Adverse Birth Outcomes And Infant Respiratory Health Findings From A South African Birth Cohort

Author

Rajen N. Naidoo, Radhika Singh, Prakash Jeena, Anil Chuturgoon, and Kareshma Ramcharan

Subjects
business.industry, Air pollution, medicine.disease_cause, Environmental health, ABO blood group system, parasitic diseases, medicine, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, sense organs, skin and connective tissue diseases, Birth cohort, business, Respiratory health, General Environmental Science
Abstract

Background. Oxides of nitrogen (NOx) have been associated with adverse birth outcomes (ABO) and with poor respiratory health among children. These exposure-related changes have not been previously ...

Published
2015
Full Text
View/download PDF

15. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES AND CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE IN A HIGH TUBERCULOSIS PREVALENCE POPULATION

Author

Rajen N. Naidoo, Umesh G. Lalloo, and Nadira Govender

Subjects
COPD, education.field_of_study, medicine.medical_specialty, Tuberculosis, business.industry, Population, Pulmonary disease, medicine.disease, respiratory tract diseases, Internal medicine, medicine, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, education, business, General Environmental Science
Abstract

Background and Aims: Occupational exposures are associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). These associations have not been investigated against the background of tuberculosis, a...

Published
2011
Full Text
View/download PDF

16. AMBIENT POLLUTION AND BIRTH OUTCOMES

Author

Rajen N. Naidoo, Poovendhree Reddy, Anil Chuturgoon, Kareshma Asharam, Dhaneshree Bestinee Naidoo, Alisa Phulukdaree, and Devapregasan Moodley

Subjects
Pollution, media_common.quotation_subject, Environmental health, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental science, General Environmental Science, media_common
Published
2011
Full Text
View/download PDF

Catalog

Books, media, physical & digital resources
See catalog results