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Leader Sung Kyun Park, Sc.D., M.P.H. Major Fields Genetic and Metabolic Epidemiology Keywords Air pollution  • environmental epidemiology  • cardiovascular disease  • aging  • hearing loss  • nutrition  • heavy metals  • Bisphenol-A  • occupational noise  • Type-2 diabetes  • gene-environment interaction  • nutrition-environment interaction  • NHANES

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Our group investigates environmental and occupational determinants of age-related diseases including cardio-metabolic disease, age-related hearing loss, and age-related cataract with a focus on exploring biological pathways using gene-environment and nutrition-environment interactions. Environmental and occupational determinants include air pollution, heavy metals (lead, cadmium, mercury), bisphenol-A, and occupational noise. The study cohorts we examine are the Normative Aging Study, Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), and Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES).