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Environmental exposures contribute to respiratory and allergic symptoms among women living in the banana growing regions of Costa Rica

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  • Brooke Alhanti Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Berna van Wendel de Joode Infants’ Environmental Health (ISA) Study, Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Manuel Soto Martinez Respiratory Department, Hospital Nacional de Niños, San Jose, Costa Rica PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ana M Mora Infants’ Environmental Health (ISA) Study, Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health (CERCH), University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Leonel Córdoba Gamboa Infants’ Environmental Health (ISA) Study, Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Brian Reich Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Christian H Lindh Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marcela Quirós Lépiz Infants’ Environmental Health (ISA) Study, Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jane A Hoppin Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Jane A Hoppin, Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; jahoppin{at}ncsu.edu
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Alhanti B, van Wendel de Joode B, Soto Martinez M, et al
Environmental exposures contribute to respiratory and allergic symptoms among women living in the banana growing regions of Costa Rica
Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2022;79:469-476.

Publication history

  • Received May 4, 2021
  • Accepted December 9, 2021
  • First published December 30, 2021.
Online issue publication 
October 18, 2023

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