Park Group - Environmental Epidemiology of Aging

Selected Publications

Park SK, Auchincloss AH, O'Neill MS, Prineas R, Correa JC, Keeler J, Barr RG, Kaufman JD, Diez Roux AV (2010). Particulate Air Pollution, Metabolic Syndrome, and Heart Rate Variability: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Environmental Health Perspectives, 118, 1406-1411.
Park SK, Elmarsafawy S, Mukherjee B, Spiro A III, Vokonas PS, Nie H, Weisskopf MG, Schwartz J, Hu H (2010). Cumulative Lead Exposure and Age-related Hearing Loss: The VA Normative Aging Study Hearing Research, 269(1-2), 48-55.

Park S. K., Mukherjee B., Xia X., Sparrow D., Weisskopf M. G., Nie H., Hu H. (2009). Bone Lead Level Prediction Models and Their Application to Examining the Relationship of Lead Exposure and Hypertension in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES-III) J Occup Environ Med, 51(12), 1422-1436.
Park S. K., Tucker K. L., O'Neill M. S., Sparrow D., Vokonas P. S., Hu H., Schwartz J. (2009). Fruit, vegetable and fish consumption and heart rate variability: the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study Am J Clin Nutr, 89(3), 778-786.
Ren C, Park SK, Vokonas PS, Sparrow D, Wilker E, Baccarelli A, Suh HH, Tucker KL, Wright RO, Schwartz J (2009). Air Pollution and Homocysteine: More Evidence that Oxidative Stress-related Genes Modify Effects of Particulate Air Pollution Epidemiology, (in press)
Park S. K., Hu H., Wright R. O., Schwartz J., Cheng Y., Sparrow D., Vokonas P. S., Weisskopf M. G. (2009). Iron metabolism genes, low-level lead exposure and QT interval. Environmental Health Perspectives, 117(1), 80-85.

Lampe B. J., Park S. K., Robins T., Mukherjee B., Litonjua A. A., Amarasiriwardena C., Weisskopf M., Sparrow D., Hu H. (2008). Association between 24-hour urinary cadmium and pulmonary function among community-exposed men: The VA Normative Aging Study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 116(9), 1226-1230.
Park S. K., O'Neill M. S., Vokonas P. S., Sparrow D., Spiro A. III, Tucker K. L., Suh H., Hu H., Schwartz J. (2008). Traffic-related particles are associated with elevated homocysteine: the VA Normative Aging Study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 178(3), 283-289.
Park S. K., O'Neill M. S., Vokonas P. S., Sparrow D., Wright R. O., Coull B., Nie H., Hu H., Schwartz J. (2008). Air Pollution and Heart Rate Variability: Effect Modification by Chronic Lead Exposure. Epidmeiology, 19(1), 111-120.

Park, S.K., O'Neill, M.S., Stunder, B.J.B., Vokomas, P.S., Sparrow, D., Koutrakis, P. and Schwartz, J. (2007). Source location of air pollution and cardiac autonomic function: trajectory cluster analysis for exposure assessment. Journal Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 17(5), 488-497.

Park, S.K., O'Neill, M.S., Wright, R.O. Hu, H., Vokomoas, P.S., Sparrow, D. , Suh, H. and Schwartz, J. (2006). HFE geotype, particulate air pollution, and heart rate variability: a gene-environment interaction. Circulation, 114(25), 2798-2805.
Park, S.K., Schwartz, J., Weisskopt, M., Wright, R.O., Coull, B., Sparrow, D., Vokomas, P.S., Nie, H. and Hu, H. (2006). Low-level lead exposure, metabolic syndrome and heart rate variability: the VA Normative Aging Study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 114(11), 1718-1724.

Park S.K., O'Neill, M.S., Vokonas, P.S., Sparrow, D. and Schwartz, J." (2005). Effects of air pollution on heart rate variability: the VA Normative Aging Study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 113(3), 304-309.
Schwartz, J., Park, S.K., O'Neill, M.S., Vokomas, P.S., Sparrow, D., Weiss, S.T., Kelsey, K. (2005). Glutathione-S-trasnferase M1, Obesity, Statins and Autonomic effects of particles: gene-by-drug-by-environmental interaction. American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, 172(12), 1529-1533.