Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology

Associated Research Group

Group Leader

Manolis Kogevinas

The main research of the group is focused on environmental, occupational and genetic factors related to cancer, respiratory disease and child health. Among the main exposures, the group is focused on radiations (smartphones, UV, ionizing), water pollutants (disinfection by-products in drinking water and swimming pools), air pollution, transport and green spaces in urban areas, hormonal disruption, life style (diet, passive smoking), as well as occupational studies in cleaning workers and shift-work and circadian cycle disruption. In the last years we have applied new tecnologies to assess the exposure (e.g. smartphones), extensively used new biomedical technologies (Exposome, biomarkers, genomics, epigenetics, metabolomics) and implemented complex statistics and bioinformatics methods. The group has an important international reputation and devotes considerable efforts in education, dissemination and knowledge transfer.

Members

Lourdes Arjona Camí (Technician)

Gemma Castaño Vinyals (Research Assistant)

Anna Delgado Llobet (Technician)

Cristina Villanueva Belmonte (Researcher)

 

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Main Publications with IMIM

• Espejo-Herrera N, Gràcia-Lavedan E, Pollán M, Aragonés N, Boldo E, Pérez-Gómez B, Altzibar JM, Amiano P, Zabala AJ, Ardanaz E, Guevara M, Molina AJ, Barrio JP, Gómez-Acebo I, Tardón A, Peiró R, Chirlaque MD, Palau M, Muñoz M, Font-Ribera L, Castaño-Vinyals G, Kogevinas M, Villanueva CM. Ingested Nitrate and Breast Cancer in the Spanish Multicase-Control Study on Cancer (MCC-Spain). Environ Health Perspect 2016; 124(7): 1042-1049. IF 8.443. Q1.

• Espejo-Herrera N, Gràcia-Lavedan E, Boldo E, Aragonés N, Pérez-Gómez B, Pollán M, Molina AJ, Fernández T, Martin V, La Vecchia C, Bosetti C, Tavani A, Polesel J, Serraino D, Gómez-Acebo I, Altzibar JM, Ardanaz E, Burgui R, Pisa F, Fernández-Tardón G, Tardón A, Peiró R, Navarro C, Castaño-Vinyals G, Moreno V, Righi E, Aggazzotti G, Basagaña X, Nieuwenhuijsen M, Kogevinas M, Villanueva CM. Colorectal cancer risk and nitrate exposure through drinking water and diet. Int J Cancer 2016; 139(2): 334-346. IF 5.531. Q1.

• Kogevinas M, Bustamante M, Gràcia-Lavedan E, Ballester F, Cordier S, Costet N, Espinosa A, Grazuleviciene R, Danileviciute A, Ibarluzea J, Karadanelli M, Krasner S, Patelarou E, Stephanou E, Tardón A, Toledano MB, Wright J, Villanueva CM, Nieuwenhuijsen M. Drinking water disinfection byproducts, genetic polymorphisms, and birth outcomes in a European mother-child cohort study. Epidemiology 2016; 27(6): 903-911. IF 6.075. Q1.

• Middlebrooks CD, Banday AR, Matsuda K, Udquim KI, Onabajo OO, Paquin A, Figueroa JD, Zhu B, Koutros S, Kubo M, Shuin T, Freedman ND, Kogevinas M, Malats N, Chanock SJ, Garcia-Closas M, Silverman DT, Rothman N, Prokunina-Olsson L. Association of germline variants in the APOBEC3 region with cancer risk and enrichment with APOBEC-signature mutations in tumors. Nat Genet 2016; 48(11): 1330-1338. IF 31.616. Q1.

• Papantoniou K, Castaño-Vinyals G, Espinosa A, Aragonés N, Pérez-Gómez B, Ardanaz E, Altzibar JM, Martin-Sanchez V, Gómez-Acebo I, Llorca J, Muñoz D, Tardón A, Peiró R, Marcos-Gragera R, Pollán M, Kogevinas M. Breast cancer risk and night shift work in a case-control study in a Spanish population. Eur J Epidemiol 2016; 31(9): 867-878. IF 7.105. Q1.

• Pastor-Barriuso R, Fernández MF, Castaño-Vinyals G, Whelan D, Pérez-Gómez B, Llorca J, Villanueva CM, Guevara M, Molina JM, Artacho-Cordón F, Barriuso-Lapresa L, Tusquets I, Dierssen-Sotos T, Aragonés N, Olea N, Kogevinas M, Pollán M. Total Effective Xenoestrogen Burden in Serum Samples and Risk for Breast Cancer in a Population-Based Multicase-Control Study in Spain. Environ Health Perspect 2016; 124(10): 1575-1582. IF 8.443. Q1.

• Pedersen M, Gehring U, Beelen R, Wang M, Giorgis-Allemand L, Nybo Andersen AM, Basagaña X, Bernard C, Cirach M, Forastiere F, de Hoogh K, Grazuleviciene R, Gruzieva O, Hoek G, Jedynska A, Klümper C, Kooter I, Krämer U, Kukkonen J, Porta D, Postma DS, van Rossem L, Sunyer J, Sorensen M, Tsai MY, Vrijkotte TGM, Wilhelm M, Nieuwenhuijsen M, Pershagen G, Brunekreef B, Kogevinas M, Slama R. Elemental Constituents of Particulate Matter and Newborn's Size in Eight European Cohorts. Environ Health Perspect 2016; 124(1): 141-150. IF 8.443. Q1.

• Stratakis N, Roumeliotaki T, Oken E, Barros H, Basterrechea M, Charles MA, Eggesbø M, Forastiere F, Gaillard R, Gehring U, Govarts E, Hanke W, Heude B, Iszatt N, Jaddoe VW, Kelleher C, Mommers M, Murcia M, Oliveira A, Pizzi C, Polanska K, Porta D, Richiardi L, Rifas-Shiman SL, Schoeters G, Sunyer J, Thijs C, Viljoen K, Vrijheid M, Vrijkotte TG, Wijga AH, Zeegers MP, Kogevinas M, Chatzi L. Fish Intake in Pregnancy and Child Growth: A Pooled Analysis of 15 European and US Birth Cohorts. JAMA Pediatr 2016; 170(4): 381-390. IF 9.528. Q1.

• Vardavas CI, Hohmann C, Patelarou E, Martínez D, Henderson AJ, Granell R, Sunyer J, Torrent M, Fantini MP, Gori D, Annesi-Maesano I, Slama R, Duijts L, de Jongste JC, Aurrekoetxea JJ, Basterrechea M, Morales E, Ballester F, Murcia M, Thijs C, Mommers M, Kuehni CE, Gaillard EA, Tischer C, Heinrich J, Pizzi C, Zugna D, Gehring U, Wijga A, Chatzi L, Vassilaki M, Bergström A, Eller E, Lau S, Keil T, Nieuwenhuijsen M, Kogevinas M. The independent role of prenatal and postnatal exposure to active and passive smoking on the development of early wheeze in children. Eur Respir J 2016; 48(1): 115-124. IF 8.332. Q1.

 

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