Liza Lutzker

Liza Lutzker
University of California, Berkeley | UCB · Department of Environmental Health Sciences

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Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) exposure can induce immune system pathology via epigenetic modification, affecting pregnancy outcomes. Our study investigated the association between PM 2.5 exposure and immune response, as well as epigenetic changes using high-dimensional epigenetic landscape profiling using cytometry by time-of-flight (EpiTOF) at...
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Background: Evidence in the literature suggests that air pollution exposures experienced prenatally and early in life can be detrimental to normal lung development, however the specific timing of critical windows during development is not fully understood. Objectives: We evaluated air pollution exposures during the prenatal and early-life period...
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Background Ambient air pollutant (AAP) exposure is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as preeclampsia, preterm labor, and low birth weight. Previous studies have shown methylation of immune genes associate with exposure to air pollutants in pregnant women, but the cell-mediated response in the context of typical pregnancy cell alterat...
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Background Suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) mortality have been rising in the United States. While suicide and overdose have received a great deal of attention, far less public health concern has focused on chronic ALD. To address this gap, we examine ALD mortality rates, by race, in a cohort of autoworkers to describ...
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Background Previous research has revealed links between air pollution exposure and metabolic syndrome in adults; however, these associations are less explored in children. Objective This study aims to investigate the association between traffic-related air pollutants (TRAP) and biomarkers of metabolic dysregulation, oxidative stress, and lung epit...
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Background Metabolic syndrome increases the risk of cardiovascular disease in adults. Antecedents likely begin in childhood and whether childhood exposure to air pollution plays a contributory role is not well understood. Objectives To assess whether children’s exposure to air pollution is associated with markers of risk for metabolic syndrome and...
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Objectives This report describes the extended follow-up (1941–2015) of a cohort of 38 549 automobile manufacturing workers with potential exposure to metalworking fluids (MWF). The outcomes of interest were mortality from cancers of the esophagus, stomach, intestine, rectum, bladder, liver, pancreas, larynx, lung, skin, prostate, brain, and female...
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Walk Bike Berkeley produced an analysis of e-bikes in November 2019 for the City of Berkeley California's Electric Mobility Roadmap. Berkeley's 2019 Roadmap sought to reduce the City's climate emissions from transportation, primarily through switching to electric vehicles. The Walk Bike Berkeley report compared e-bikes to gas and electric powered c...
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Objective Occupational dust exposure has been associated with accelerated lung function decline, which in turn is associated with overall morbidity and mortality. In the current study, we assess potential benefits on lung function of hypothetical interventions that would reduce occupational exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) while adjust...
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Purpose: Using 27 years of survey data, the contributions of age, period, and cohort effects on the increase in adult lifetime asthma prevalence in California were examined. Methods: Lifetime asthma diagnosis for adults was assessed in 1984-1992 and 1995-2011 through the California Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, an annual, cross-sec...
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This report is intended to inform, support, and enhance the efforts of those interested in making housing throughout the state healthier. While experts in the healthy housing feld understand a great deal about the overlaps between the condition of housing and the health of occupants, there are very few compilations of state-level data regarding the...
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BACKGROUND: Adult lifetime asthma prevalence in California nearly doubled between 1984 and 2011 (from 7.6% to 14.0%). Whether this substantial increase over time is influenced by age, period, or cohort effects has not been examined. In this study, we used 26 years of historical survey data to assess the relative contributions of age, period, and co...
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California’s asthma surveillance system uses data from a wide variety of sources to describe the burden of asthma in the state. Surveillance data include, but are not limited to: the number of people with asthma, levels of symptoms, use of routine health care, visits to the emergency department (ED) and hospital, costs of health care utilization, a...
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Adults who have asthma that is caused or aggravated by triggers at work experience a reduced quality of life. In this study, the authors sought to estimate the proportion of asthma that is associated with work using a state-based survey of adults with asthma. In 2005, Michigan, Minnesota, and Oregon piloted the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance S...
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Asthma affects over 5 million Californians. While there is currently no cure for asthma, people with asthma can live healthy, productive lives. Asthma deaths, while rare, represent more severe, uncontrolled disease. In California and nationwide, comparisons of asthma outcomes for minority race groups are seldom reported, despite that almost half of...

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