Dr. Erin M. Bell

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  fridayletter.asph.org/printing_press.cfm?fl_index=1544 - [Cached Version]
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  Collaborating with Dr. Druschel will be Ms. Erin M. Bell, assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University at Albany; Dr. Christopher A. Kus, associate medical director of the Division of Family Health (NYSDOH); and senior researchers at the NICHD.
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  "The program will help us to identify how a number of maternal and familial factors may impact child development," said Dr. Bell.

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  "The take-home message is encouraging," says Erin Bell, assistant professor in the department of epidemiology in UAlbany's School of Public Health.
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  Although hair dyes sold today are considered safer, Bell says, more study is warranted.
  
  That is spelled out in the current study: "Given the conflicting body of literature in hair coloring product use and risk of multiple myeloma, this question should be further evaluated in larger studies"
  
  For now, though, the latest word belongs to Bell and her eight coauthors, whose study appears in the January 2009 issue of "Occupational and Environmental Medicine."
  
  Their study, like the earlier studies, emanated from reports beginning in the 1970s that cosmetologists and hairdressers who applied hair coloring were getting cancer at unusually high rates.
  
  The cancer most associated with hair dye was multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells in the bone marrow. Its five-year survival rate is 28 percent, Bell says.
  
  "Mortality is quite high," she says.
  
  Bell started working on the study when she worked at the National Cancer Institute. She continued when she moved to the Capital Region in 2002. Her role was assisting with statistical analysis.
  
  The study examined women age 21 to 84 - 175 women with multiple myeloma and 679 women with no cancer. They were asked about the type and coloring of hair dye they used, how old they were when they first used it and how often they used it.
  
  Of the 175 women with myeloma, 116 said they had used hair dye, Bell says. Other factors were also considered, including occupational exposure to carcinogens, medication use and medical history, she says.

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  ERIN M. BELL, PH.D. Assistant Professor Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Public Health

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  Beyond Pesticides - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/14/2001    Last Visited: 10/8/2009  

  Reuters Health reports on a new study by lead author Dr. Erin M. Bell in the March issue of the journal Epidemiology (vol. 22, pps.
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  Bell stated in an interview with Reuters Health that the association between pesticide exposure and fetal death "increased for women living within one mile of the field where pesticide application occurred."
  
  The study states that the authors', "exposure classification method did not guarantee that a mother was, in fact, exposed, because wind and weather conditions, hour of application and the location of the mother at the time of the application are all factors that would determine actual exposure. Bell told Reuters Health, "Future research will need to define actual exposures to pesticides and their effect on particular time periods during a woman's pregnancy."
  
  Bell researched the study while at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill and currently works at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD.

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  Epidemiologist Erin Bell explained how researchers can analyze, say, data on 5 million births in a given part of the country in a few minutes."We couldn't do that 20 years ago," she said.

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  "Our study showed a consistent pattern with respect to timing of exposure" - Dr. Erin Bell ...
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  "Our study showed a consistent pattern with respect to timing of exposure," said Dr. Erin Bell, who earned her doctorate with the research at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Public Health."The largest risks for fetal death due to birth defects were from pesticide exposure during the third week to the eighth week of pregnancy."
  
  That span - much of the first trimester - appears to be a special window of vulnerability for birth defects, Bell said, just as earlier research has suggested.
  
  Pesticide spraying on a soybean farm (Three photos courtesy U.S. Agricultural Research Service) "The risks appeared to be strongest among pregnant women who lived in the same square mile where pesticides were used," she said.
  
  A report on the research will appear in the March issue of "Epidemiology," a public health journal.Besides Bell, now an epidemiologist with the National Cancer Institute, the authors include her mentor Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotto, professor of epidemiology at UNC, and Dr. James Beaumont, formerly of the University of California at Davis and now with the California Environmental Protection Agency.
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  Some pesticides warn that children should not be allowed near sprayed areas until the chemical has completely dried "The take home message is that we did find an increased risk for women living near agricultural fields where pesticides were applied during the early weeks of their pregnancies, but these results are not conclusive," Bell said.
  
  Investigators cautioned that further study is needed since they lacked certain information.
  
  "Our exposure classification method did not guarantee that a mother was in fact exposed because wind and weather conditions, hour of application and the location of the mother at the times of application were all factors that would determine actual exposure," she said.
  
  Women considering becoming pregnant who are worried about pesticide exposure should consult their physicians, she said.
  
  About 19,000 fetal deaths occur in the United States each year, and the causes remain a significant public health problem, Bell said.

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  "Our study showed a consistent pattern with respect to timing of exposure," said Dr. Erin Bell, who earned her doctorate with the research at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Public Health."The largest risks for fetal death due to birth defects were from pesticide exposure during the third week to the eighth week of pregnancy."
  
  "The risks appeared to be strongest among pregnant women who lived in the same square mile where pesticides were used," she said.
  
  "This is the first study to our knowledge of pesticides and pregnancy in which exposures were in close proximity to the subjects and the verification of pesticide use was objective, not relying on people's memories of what they might have been exposed to," Hertz-Picciotto said.
  
  About 19,000 fetal deaths occur in the United States each year, and the causes remain a significant public health problem, Bell said.Among known risk factors are smoking, advanced age among pregnant women and previous history of fetal deaths.
  
  Erin Bell (Ph.D.) University of North Carolina

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  Environment: Living Near Where Pesticides Are Used May... - [Cached Version]
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  "Our study showed a consistent pattern with respect to timing of exposure," said Dr. Erin M. Bell, who earned her doctorate with the research at the UNC School of Public Health."The largest risks for fetal death due to birth defects were from pesticide exposure during the third week to the eighth week of pregnancy."
  
  That span - much of the first trimester - appears to be a special window of vulnerability for birth defects, Bell said, just as earlier research has suggested.
  
  "The risks appeared to be strongest among pregnant women who lived in the same square mile where pesticides were used," she said.

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  Environmental Causes of Infertility - [Cached Version]
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  Erin Bell (Ph.D.)University of North CarolinaSchool of Public Health

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  Home and Lawn Pesticides More Dangerous than... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/5/2000    Last Visited: 12/8/2007  

  Erin M. Bell
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  "Our study showed a consistent pattern with respect to timing of exposure," said Dr. Erin Bell, who earned her doctorate with the research at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Public Health."The largest risks for fetal death due to birth defects were from pesticide exposure during the third week to the eighth week of pregnancy."
  
  "The risks appeared to be strongest among pregnant women who lived in the same square mile where pesticides were used," she said.
  
  "This is the first study to our knowledge of pesticides and pregnancy in which exposures were in close proximity to the subjects and the verification of pesticide use was objective, not relying on people's memories of what they might have been exposed to," Hertz-Picciotto said.
  
  About 19,000 fetal deaths occur in the United States each year, and the causes remain a significant public health problem, Bell said.Among known risk factors are smoking, advanced age among pregnant women and previous history of fetal deaths.
  
  Erin Bell (Ph.D.)University of North Carolina

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