• 5G and human health 

      Theodorou K., Tyrakis C., Softa V., Kappas C. (2021)
      The considerable characteristics of 5G technology (Fifth Generation of telecommunication) is the very high amount of data that can be transmitted in the time unit (data speed: Megabits per second - throughput) and the very ...
    • Bioaugmentation of animal feces as a mean to mitigate environmental contamination with anthelmintic benzimidazoles 

      Lagos S., Perruchon C., Tsikriki A., Gourombinos E., Vasileiadis S., Sotiraki S., Karpouzas D.G. (2021)
      Anthelmintics are used to control infestations of ruminants by gastrointestinal nematodes. The limited metabolism of anthelmintics in animals result in their excretion in feces. These could be piled up in the floor of ...
    • Bioavailability and health risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in Thriasio Plain, near Athens, Greece 

      Antoniadis V., Golia E.E., Shaheen S.M., Rinklebe J. (2017)
      Elevated concentrations of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) are usually found in areas of intense industrial activity. Thriasio Plain is a plain near Athens, Greece, where most of the heavy industry of the country has ...
    • Brain diseases in changing climate 

      Ruszkiewicz J.A., Tinkov A.A., Skalny A.V., Siokas V., Dardiotis E., Tsatsakis A., Bowman A.B., da Rocha J.B.T., Aschner M. (2019)
      Climate change is one of the biggest and most urgent challenges for the 21st century. Rising average temperatures and ocean levels, altered precipitation patterns and increased occurrence of extreme weather events affect ...
    • Bridging plant and human radiation response and DNA repair through an in silico approach 

      Nikitaki Z., Pavlopoulou A., Holá M., Donà M., Michalopoulos I., Balestrazzi A., Angelis K.J., Georgakilas A.G. (2017)
      The mechanisms of response to radiation exposure are conserved in plants and animals. The DNA damage response (DDR) pathways are the predominant molecular pathways activated upon exposure to radiation, both in plants and ...
    • A critical prospective analysis of the potential toxicity of trace element regulation limits in soils worldwide: Are they protective concerning health risk assessment? - A review 

      Antoniadis V., Shaheen S.M., Levizou E., Shahid M., Niazi N.K., Vithanage M., Ok Y.S., Bolan N., Rinklebe J. (2019)
      Trace elements (TEs) may have toxic effects to plants and humans; thus, countries and organizations impose maximum allowable regulation limits of their concentrations in soils. Usually such limits are placed in different ...
    • Dissipation and adsorption of isoproturon, tebuconazole, chlorpyrifos and their main transformation products under laboratory and field conditions 

      Papadopoulou E.S., Karas P.A., Nikolaki S., Storck V., Ferrari F., Trevisan M., Tsiamis G., Martin-Laurent F., Karpouzas D.G. (2016)
      Assessment of dissipation constitutes an integral part of pesticides risk assessment since it provides an estimate of the level and the duration of exposure of the terrestrial ecosystem to pesticides. Within the frame of ...
    • Dna repair gene polymorphisms and susceptibility to urothelial carcinoma in a southeastern european population 

      Samara M., Papathanassiou M., Mitrakas L., Koukoulis G., Vlachostergios P.J., Tzortzis V. (2021)
      Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DNA repair genes may predispose to urothelial carcinoma of the bladder (UCB). This study focused on three specific SNPs in a population with high exposure to environmental carcinogens ...
    • Editorial: Alternative tobacco products: Toxicology and health issues 

      Kouretas D., Tsatsakis A., Poulas K. (2018)
      [No abstract available]
    • The effect of glyphosate on human sperm motility and sperm DNA fragmentation 

      Anifandis G., Katsanaki K., Lagodonti G., Messini C., Simopoulou M., Dafopoulos K., Daponte A. (2018)
      Glyphosate is the active ingredient of Roundup®, which is one of the most popular herbicides worldwide. Although many studies have focused on the reproductive toxicity of glyphosate or glyphosate-based herbicides, the ...
    • Effect of PM2.5 levels on respiratory pediatric ed visits in a semi‐urban greek peninsula 

      Kanellopoulos N., Pantazopoulos I., Mermiri M., Mavrovounis G., Kalantzis G., Saharidis G., Gourgoulianis K. (2021)
      Ambient air pollution accounts for an estimated 4.2 million deaths worldwide. Particulate matter (PM)2.5 particles are believed to be the most harmful, as when inhaled they can penetrate deep into the lungs. The aim of ...
    • Effects on puberty of nutrition-mediated endocrine disruptors employed in agriculture 

      Sakali A.K., Bargiota A., Fatouros I., Jamurtas A., Macut D., Mastorakos G., Papagianni M. (2021)
      Pesticide residues are largely found in daily consumed food because of their extensive use in farming and their long half-life, which prolongs their presence in the environment. Many of these pesticides act as endocrine-disrupting ...
    • The EU endocrine disruptors’ regulation and the glyphosate controversy 

      Kalofiri P., Balias G., Tekos F. (2021)
      Endocrine disruptors are compounds that alter the functioning of the endocrine system of humans and wildlife. A large number of chemicals have been identified as EDs and humans can be exposed to them through dietary and/or ...
    • Exposure Biomarkers and Histopathological Analysis in Pig Liver after Exposure to Mycotoxins under Field Conditions: Special Report on Fumonisin B1 

      Papatsiros V.G., Stylianaki I., Tsekouras N., Papakonstantinou G., Gómez-Nicolau N.S., Letsios M., Papaioannou N. (2021)
      Liver samples from finisher pigs were collected at the slaughterhouses for the analysis of zearalenone (ZEA), alfa-/beta-zearalenone (α-ZE, β-ZE), zearalanone (ZA), alfa-/beta-ZA (α-ZA, β-ZA), aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) and ...
    • Extremely low frequency electromagnetic exposure assessment in schools: a statistical analysis of urban and semi-urban areas 

      Kiouvrekis Y., Alexias A., Softa V., Alkhorayef M., Sulieman A., Tyrakis C., Kappas C. (2021)
      The aim of this research paper is to estimate the mean value of extremely low frequency (ELF) exposure in schools in Greece. Detailed ELF measurements were conducted and analyzed by the Weighted Peak Method (WPM), which ...
    • EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EXPOSURE MEASUREMENT in the VICINITY of WIND TURBINES 

      Aris A., Yiannis K., Tyrakis C., Alkhorayef M., Sulieman A., Tsougos I., Theodorou K., Kappas C. (2020)
      Background: There is an exponential growth of public concern worldwide regarding the exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) generated by wind turbines. The high concern of the general population enhances the fact that ...
    • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 

      Stanaway J.D., Afshin A., Gakidou E., Lim S.S., Abate D., Abate K.H., Abbafati C., Abbasi N., Abbastabar H., Abd-Allah F., Abdela J., Abdelalim A., Abdollahpour I., Abdulkader R.S., Abebe M., Abebe Z., Abera S.F., Abil O.Z., Abraha H.N., Abrham A.R., Abu-Raddad L.J., Abu-Rmeileh N.M.E., Accrombessi M.M.K., Acharya D., Acharya P., Adamu A.A., Adane A.A., Adebayo O.M., Adedoyin R.A., Adekanmbi V., Ademi Z., Adetokunboh O.O., Adib M.G., Admasie A., Adsuar J.C., Afanvi K.A., Afarideh M., Agarwal G., Aggarwal A., Aghayan S.A., Agrawal A., Agrawal S., Ahmadi A., Ahmadi M., Ahmadieh H., Ahmed M.B., Aichour A.N., Aichour I., Aichour M.T.E., Akbari M.E., Akinyemiju T., Akseer N., Al-Aly Z., Al-Eyadhy A., Al-Mekhlafi H.M., Alahdab F., Alam K., Alam S., Alam T., Alashi A., Alavian S.M., Alene K.A., Ali K., Ali S.M., Alijanzadeh M., Alizadeh-Navaei R., Aljunid S.M., Alkerwi A., Alla F., Alsharif U., Altirkawi K., Alvis-Guzman N., Amare A.T., Ammar W., Anber N.H., Anderson J.A., Andrei C.L., Androudi S., Animut M.D., Anjomshoa M., Ansha M.G., Antó J.M., Antonio C.A.T., Anwari P., Appiah L.T., Appiah S.C.Y., Arabloo J., Aremu O., Ärnlöv J., Artaman A., Aryal K.K., Asayesh H., Ataro Z., Ausloos M., Avokpaho E.F.G.A., Awasthi A., Quintanilla B.P.A., Ayer R., Ayuk T.B., Azzopardi P.S., Babazadeh A., Badali H., Badawi A., Balakrishnan K., Bali A.G., Ball K., Ballew S.H., Banach M., Banoub J.A.M., Barac A., Barker-Collo S.L., Bärnighausen T.W., Barrero L.H., Basu S., Baune B.T., Bazargan-Hejazi S., Bedi N., Beghi E., Behzadifar M., Behzadifar M., Béjot Y., Bekele B.B., Bekru E.T., Belay E., Belay Y.A., Bell M.L., Bello A.K., Bennett D.A., Bensenor I.M., Bergeron G., Berhane A., Bernabe E., Bernstein R.S., Beuran M., Beyranvand T., Bhala N., Bhalla A., Bhattarai S., Bhutta Z.A., Biadgo B., Bijani A., Bikbov B., Bilano V., Bililign N., Sayeed M.S.B., Bisanzio D., Biswas T., Bjorge T., Blacker B.F., Bleyer A., Borschmann R., Bou-Orm I.R., Boufous S., Bourne R., Brady O.J., Brauer M., Brazinova A., Breitborde N.J.K., Brenner H., Briko A.N., Britton G., Brugha T., Buchbinder R., Burnett R.T., Busse R., Butt Z.A., Cahill L.E., Cahuana-Hurtado L., Campos-Nonato I.R., Cárdenas R., Carreras G., Carrero J.J., Carvalho F., Castaneda-Orjuela C.A., Rivas J.C., Castro F., Catalá-López F., Causey K., Cercy K.M., Cerin E., Chaiah Y., Chang H.-Y., Chang J.-C., Chang K.-L., Charlson F.J., Chattopadhyay A., Chattu V.K., Chee M.L., Cheng C.-Y., Chew A., Chiang P.P.-C., Chimed-Ochir O., Chin K.L., Chitheer A., Choi J.-Y.J., Chowdhury R., Christensen H., Christopher D.J., Chung S.-C., Cicuttini F.M., Cirillo M., Cohen A.J., Collado-Mateo D., Cooper C., Cooper O.R., Coresh J., Cornaby L., Cortesi P.A., Cortinovis M., Costa M., Cousin E., Criqui M.H., Cromwell E.A., Cundiff D.K., Daba A.K., Dachew B.A., Dadi A.F., Damasceno A.A.M., Dandona L., Dandona R., Darby S.C., Dargan P.I., Daryani A., Gupta R.D., Neves J.D., Dasa T.T., Dash A.P., Davitoiu D.V., Davletov K., De La Cruz-Góngora V., La Hoz F.P.D., Leo D.D., Neve J.-W.D., Degenhardt L., Deiparine S., Dellavalle R.P., Demoz G.T., Denova-Gutiérrez E., Deribe K., Dervenis N., Deshpande A., Jarlais D.C.D., Dessie G.A., Deveber G.A., Dey S., Dharmaratne S.D., Dhimal M., Dinberu M.T., Ding E.L., Diro H.D., Djalalinia S., Do H.P., Dokova K., Doku D.T., Doyle K.E., Driscoll T.R., Dubey M., Dubljanin E., Duken E.E., Duncan B.B., Duraes A.R., Ebert N., Ebrahimi H., Ebrahimpour S., Edvardsson D., Effiong A., Eggen A.E., Bcheraoui C.E., El-Khatib Z., Elyazar I.R., Enayati A., Endries A.Y., Er B., Erskine H.E., Eskandarieh S., Esteghamati A., Estep K., Fakhim H., Faramarzi M., Fareed M., Farid T.A., Farinha C.S.E., Farioli A., Faro A., Farvid M.S., Farzaei M.H., Fatima B., Fay K.A., Fazaeli A.A., Feigin V.L., Feigl A.B., Fereshtehnejad S.-M., Fernandes E., Fernandes J.C., Ferrara G., Ferrari A.J., Ferreira M.L., Filip I., Finger J.D., Fischer F., Foigt N.A., Foreman K.J., Fukumoto T., Fullman N., Fürst T., Furtado J.M., Futran N.D., Gall S., Gallus S., Gamkrelidze A., Ganji M., Garcia-Basteiro A.L., Gardner W.M., Gebre A.K., Gebremedhin A.T., Gebremichael T.G., Gelano T.F., Geleijnse J.M., Geramo Y.C.D., Gething P.W., Gezae K.E., Ghadimi R., Ghadiri K., Falavarjani K.G., Ghasemi-Kasman M., Ghimire M., Ghosh R., Ghoshal A.G., Giampaoli S., Gill P.S., Gill T.K., Gillum R.F., Ginawi I.A., Giussani G., Gnedovskaya E.V., Godwin W.W., Goli S., Gómez-Dantés H., Gona P.N., Gopalani S.V., Goulart A.C., Grada A., Grams M.E., Grosso G., Gugnani H.C., Guo Y., Gupta R., Gupta R., Gupta T., Gutiérrez R.A., Gutiérrez-Torres D.S., Haagsma J.A., Habtewold T.D., Hachinski V., Hafezi-Nejad N., Hagos T.B., Hailegiyorgis T.T., Hailu G.B., Haj-Mirzaian A., Haj-Mirzaian A., Hamadeh R.R., Hamidi S., Handal A.J., Hankey G.J., Hao Y., Harb H.L., Harikrishnan S., Haro J.M., Hassankhani H., Hassen H.Y., Havmoeller R., Hawley C.N., Hay S.I., Hedayatizadeh-Omran A., Heibati B., Heidari B., Heidari M., Hendrie D., Henok A., Heredia-Pi I., Herteliu C., Heydarpour F., Heydarpour S., Hibstu D.T., Higazi T.B., Hilawe E.H., Hoek H.W., Hoffman H.J., Hole M.K., Rad E.H., Hoogar P., Hosgood H.D., Hosseini S.M., Hosseinzadeh M., Hostiuc M., Hostiuc S., Hoy D.G., Hsairi M., Hsiao T., Hu G., Hu H., Huang J.J., Hussen M.A., Huynh C.K., Iburg K.M., Ikeda N., Ilesanmi O.S., Iqbal U., Irvani S.S.N., Irvine C.M.S., Islam S.M.S., Islami F., Jackson M.D., Jacobsen K.H., Jahangiry L., Jahanmehr N., Jain S.K., Jakovljevic M., James S.L., Jassal S.K., Jayatilleke A.U., Jeemon P., Jha R.P., Jha V., Ji J.S., Jonas J.B., Jonnagaddala J., Shushtari Z.J., Joshi A., Jozwiak J.J., Jürisson M., Kabir Z., Kahsay A., Kalani R., Kanchan T., Kant S., Kar C., Karami M., Matin B.K., Karch A., Karema C., Karimi N., Karimi S.M., Kasaeian A., Kassa D.H., Kassa G.M., Kassa T.D., Kassebaum N.J., Katikireddi S.V., Kaul A., Kawakami N., Kazemi Z., Karyani A.K., Kefale A.T., Keiyoro P.N., Kemp G.R., Kengne A.P., Keren A., Kesavachandran C.N., Khader Y.S., Khafaei B., Khafaie M.A., Khajavi A., Khalid N., Khalil I.A., Khan G., Khan M.S., Khan M.A., Khang Y.-H., Khater M.M., Khazaei M., Khazaie H., Khoja A.T., Khosravi A., Khosravi M.H., Kiadaliri A.A., Kiirithio D.N., Kim C.-I., Kim D., Kim Y.-E., Kim Y.J., Kimokoti R.W., Kinfu Y., Kisa A., Kissimova-Skarbek K., Kivimäki M., Knibbs L.D., Knudsen A.K.S., Kochhar S., Kokubo Y., Kolola T., Kopec J.A., Kosen S., Koul P.A., Koyanagi A., Kravchenko M.A., Krishan K., Krohn K.J., Kromhout H., Defo B.K., Bicer B.K., Kumar G.A., Kumar M., Kuzin I., Kyu H.H., Lachat C., Lad D.P., Lad S.D., Lafranconi A., Lalloo R., Lallukka T., Lami F.H., Lang J.J., Lansingh V.C., Larson S.L., Latifi A., Lazarus J.V., Lee P.H., Leigh J., Leili M., Leshargie C.T., Leung J., Levi M., Lewycka S., Li S., Li Y., Liang J., Liang X., Liao Y., Liben M.L., Lim L.-L., Linn S., Liu S., Lodha R., Logroscino G., Lopez A.D., Lorkowski S., Lotufo P.A., Lozano R., Lucas T.C.D., Lunevicius R., Ma S., Macarayan E.R.K., Machado Í.E., Madotto F., Mai H.T., Majdan M., Majdzadeh R., Majeed A., Malekzadeh R., Malta D.C., Mamun A.A., Manda A.-L., Manguerra H., Mansournia M.A., Mantovani L.G., Maravilla J.C., Marcenes W., Marks A., Martin R.V., Martins S.C.O., Martins-Melo F.R., März W., Marzan M.B., Massenburg B.B., Mathur M.R., Mathur P., Matsushita K., Maulik P.K., Mazidi M., Mcalinden C., Mcgrath J.J., Mckee M., Mehrotra R., Mehta K.M., Mehta V., Meier T., Mekonnen F.A., Melaku Y.A., Melese A., Melku M., Memiah P.T.N., Memish Z.A., Mendoza W., Mengistu D.T., Mensah G.A., Mensink G.B.M., Mereta S.T., Meretoja A., Meretoja T.J., Mestrovic T., Mezgebe H.B., Miazgowski B., Miazgowski T., Millear A.I., Miller T.R., Miller-Petrie M.K., Mini G.K., Mirarefin M., Mirica A., Mirrakhimov E.M., Misganaw A.T., Mitiku H., Moazen B., Mohajer B., Mohammad K.A., Mohammadi M., Mohammadifard N., Mohammadnia-Afrouzi M., Mohammed S., Mohebi F., Mokdad A.H., Molokhia M., Momeniha F., Monasta L., Moodley Y., Moradi G., Moradi-Lakeh M., Moradinazar M., Moraga P., Morawska L., Morgado-Da-costa J., Morrison S.D., Moschos M.M., Mouodi S., Mousavi S.M., Mozaffarian D., Mruts K.B., Muche A.A., Muchie K.F., Mueller U.O., Muhammed O.S., Mukhopadhyay S., Muller K., Musa K.I., Mustafa G., Nabhan A.F., Naghavi M., Naheed A., Nahvijou A., Naik G., Naik N., Najafi F., Nangia V., Nansseu J.R., Nascimento B.R., Neal B., Neamati N., Negoi I., Negoi R.I., Neupane S., Newton C.R.J., Ngunjiri J.W., Nguyen A.Q., Nguyen G., Nguyen H.T., Nguyen H.L.T., Nguyen H.T., Nguyen M., Nguyen N.B., Nichols E., Nie J., Ningrum D.N.A., Nirayo Y.L., Nishi N., Nixon M.R., Nojomi M., Nomura S., Norheim O.F., Noroozi M., Norrving B., Noubiap J.J., Nouri H.R., Shiadeh M.N., Nowroozi M.R., Nsoesie E.O., Nyasulu P.S., Obermeyer C.M., Odell C.M., Ofori-Asenso R., Ogbo F.A., Oh I.-H., Oladimeji O., Olagunju A.T., Olagunju T.O., Olivares P.R., Olsen H.E., Olusanya B.O., Olusanya J.O., Ong K.L., Ong S.K., Oren E., Orpana H.M., Ortiz A., Ota E., Otstavnov S.S., Overland S., Owolabi M.O., Mahesh P., Pacella R., Pakhare A.P., Pakpour A.H., Pana A., Panda-Jonas S., Park E.-K., Parry C.D.H., Parsian H., Patel S., Pati S., Patil S.T., Patle A., Patton G.C., Paudel D., Paulson K.R., Ballesteros W.C.P., Pearce N., Pereira A., Pereira D.M., Perico N., Pesudovs K., Petzold M., Pham H.Q., Phillips M.R., Pillay J.D., Piradov M.A., Pirsaheb M., Pischon T., Pishgar F., Plana-Ripoll O., Plass D., Polinder S., Polkinghorne K.R., Postma M.J., Poulton R., Pourshams A., Poustchi H., Prabhakaran D., Prakash S., Prasad N., Purcell C.A., Purwar M.B., Qorbani M., Radfar A., Rafay A., Rafiei A., Rahim F., Rahimi Z., Rahimi-Movaghar A., Rahimi-Movaghar V., Rahman M., Rahman M.H.U., Rahman M.A., Rai R.K., Rajati F., Rajsic S., Raju S.B., Ram U., Ranabhat C.L., Ranjan P., Rath G.K., Rawaf D.L., Rawaf S., Reddy K.S., Rehm C.D., Rehm J., Reiner R.C., Reitsma M.B., Remuzzi G., Renzaho A.M.N., Resnikoff S., Reynales-Shigematsu L.M., Rezaei S., Ribeiro A.L.P., Rivera J.A., Roba K.T., Rodríguez-Ramírez S., Roever L., Román Y., Ronfani L., Roshandel G., Rostami A., Roth G.A., Rothenbacher D., Roy A., Rubagotti E., Rushton L., Sabanayagam C., Sachdev P.S., Saddik B., Sadeghi E., Moghaddam S.S., Safari H., Safari Y., Safari-Faramani R., Safdarian M., Safi S., Safiri S., Sagar R., Sahebkar A., Sahraian M.A., Sajadi H.S., Salam N., Salamati P., Saleem Z., Salimi Y., Salimzadeh H., Salomon J.A., Salvi D.D., Salz I., Samy A.M., Sanabria J., Sanchez-Nino M.D., Sánchez-Pimienta T.G., Sanders T., Sang Y., Santomauro D.F., Santos I.S., Santos J.V., Milicevic M.M.S., Jose B.P.S., Sardana M., Sarker A.R., Sarmiento-Suárez R., Sarrafzadegan N., Sartorius B., Sarvi S., Sathian B., Satpathy M., Sawant A.R., Sawhney M., Saylan M., Sayyah M., Schaeffner E., Schmidt M.I., Schneider I.J.C., Schöttker B., Schutte A.E., Schwebel D.C., Schwendicke F., Scott J.G., Seedat S., Sekerija M., Sepanlou S.G., Serre M.L., Serván-Mori E., Seyedmousavi S., Shabaninejad H., Shaddick G., Shafieesabet A., Shahbazi M., Shaheen A.A., Shaikh M.A., Levy T.S., Shams-Beyranvand M., Shamsi M., Sharafi H., Sharafi K., Sharif M., Sharif-Alhoseini M., Sharifi H., Sharma J., Sharma M., Sharma R., She J., Sheikh A., Shi P., Shibuya K., Shiferaw M.S., Shigematsu M., Shin M.-J., Shiri R., Shirkoohi R., Shiue I., Shokraneh F., Shoman H., Shrime M.G., Shupler M.S., Si S., Siabani S., Sibai A.M., Siddiqi T.J., Sigfusdottir I.D., Sigurvinsdottir R., Silva D.A.S., Silva J.P., Silveira D.G.A., Singh J.A., Singh N.P., Singh V., Sinha D.N., Skiadaresi E., Skirbekk V., Smith D.L., Smith M., Sobaih B.H., Sobhani S., Somayaji R., Soofi M., Sorensen R.J.D., Soriano J.B., Soyiri I.N., Spinelli A., Sposato L.A., Sreeramareddy C.T., Srinivasan V., Starodubov V.I., Steckling N., Stein D.J., Stein M.B., Stevanovic G., Stockfelt L., Stokes M.A., Sturua L., Subart M.L., Sudaryanto A., Sufiyan M.B., Sulo G., Sunguya B.F., Sur P.J., Sykes B.L., Szoeke C.E.I., Tabarés-Seisdedos R., Tabuchi T., Tadakamadla S.K., Takahashi K., Tandon N., Tassew S.G., Tavakkoli M., Taveira N., Tehrani-Banihashemi A., Tekalign T.G., Tekelemedhin S.W., Tekle M.G., Temesgen H., Temsah M.-H., Temsah O., Terkawi A.S., Tessema B., Teweldemedhin M., Thankappan K.R., Theis A., Thirunavukkarasu S., Thomas H.J., Thomas M.L., Thomas N., Thurston G.D., Tilahun B., Tillmann T., To Q.G., Tobollik M., Tonelli M., Topor-Madry R., Torre A.E., Tortajada-Girbés M., Touvier M., Tovani-Palone M.R., Towbin J.A., Tran B.X., Tran K.B., Truelsen T.C., Truong N.T., Tsadik A.G., Car L.T., Tuzcu E.M., Tymeson H.D., Tyrovolas S., Ukwaja K.N., Ullah I., Updike R.L., Usman M.S., Uthman O.A., Vaduganathan M., Vaezi A., Valdez P.R., Van Donkelaar A., Varavikova E., Varughese S., Vasankari T.J., Venkateswaran V., Venketasubramanian N., Villafaina S., Violante F.S., Vladimirov S.K., Vlassov V., Vollset S.E., Vos T., Vosoughi K., Vu G.T., Vujcic I.S., Wagnew F.S., Waheed Y., Waller S.G., Walson J.L., Wang Y., Wang Y., Wang Y.-P., Weiderpass E., Weintraub R.G., Weldegebreal F., Werdecker A., Werkneh A.A., West J.J., Westerman R., Whiteford H.A., Widecka J., Wijeratne T., Winkler A.S., Wiyeh A.B., Wiysonge C.S., Wolfe C.D.A., Wong T.Y., Wu S., Xavier D., Xu G., Yadgir S., Yadollahpour A., Jabbari S.H.Y., Yamada T., Yan L.L., Yano Y., Yaseri M., Yasin Y.J., Yeshaneh A., Yimer E.M., Yip P., Yisma E., Yonemoto N., Yoon S.-J., Yotebieng M., Younis M.Z., Yousefifard M., Yu C., Zaidi Z., Zaman S.B., Zamani M., Zavala-Arciniega L., Zhang A.L., Zhang H., Zhang K., Zhou M., Zimsen S.R.M., Zodpey S., Murray C.J.L., GBD 2017 Risk Factor Collaborators (2018)
      Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising ...
    • Hair dyes as a risk for autoimmunity: From systemic lupus erythematosus to primary biliary cirrhosis 

      Smyk, D.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Bizzaro, N.; Bogdanos, D. P. (2013)
      Environmental and genetic factors appear to be involved in the pathogenesis of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), a chronic cholestatic liver disease characterized by immune-mediated destruction of the small and medium sized ...
    • The health impact of Saharan dust exposure 

      Kotsyfakis M., Zarogiannis S.G., Patelarou E. (2019)
      Air pollution is a high priority global health concern. The health damaging effects of ambient particulate matter (PM), a component of air pollution, are extensively documented, with 1.4% of deaths worldwide resulting from ...
    • Hypospadias in offspring is associated with chronic exposure of parents to organophosphate and organochlorine pesticides 

      Michalakis, M.; Tzatzarakis, M. N.; Kovatsi, L.; Alegakis, A. K.; Tsakalof, A. K.; Heretis, I.; Tsatsakis, A. (2014)
      We have currently evaluated the possible association between hypospadias and exposure to organophosphorus (OP) and organochlorine (OC) pesticides. For this purpose, we measured the dialkyl phosphate metabolites of ...