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Overview

Hans Kromhout is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has an extensive publication record in the fields of medicine and environmental science. Their research focuses primarily on occupational and environmental health, with particular attention to respiratory diseases, toxicology, and exposure assessment.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Occupational and environmental lung diseases
  • Occupational exposure and asthma
  • Electromagnetic Fields and Biological Effects
  • Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment

Kromhout's main fields of study are Medicine and Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis; Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Plant Science; and Biophysics.

Frequent publication venues where their research appears include:

  • Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • Annals of Work Exposures and Health
  • Environment International
  • Oral Presentations
  • Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health

Key recent papers authored by or involving Hans Kromhout are:

  • "Occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica and risk of autoimmune rheumatic diseases: a nationwide cohort study," 2021, International Journal of Epidemiology
  • "Respirable Crystalline Silica Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies," 2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • "Diesel Engine Exhaust Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Exposure-Response Analysis of 14 Case-Control Studies," 2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • "Systematic review of methods used to assess exposure to pesticides in occupational epidemiology studies, 1993-2017," 2020, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • "Exposure to multiple pesticides and neurobehavioral outcomes among smallholder farmers in Uganda," 2021, Environment International

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with Kromhout are:

  • Roel Vermeulen
  • Joachim Schüz
  • Ann Olsson
  • Kurt Straíf
  • Susan Peters

Best Publications

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas

  • Health Council of the Netherlands: No need to change from SAR to time-temperature relation in electromagnetic fields exposure limits

    G.C. van Rhoon;A. Aleman;G. Kelfkens;H. Kromhout

  • Occupational exposure to carcinogens in the European Union.

    Kauppinen T;Toikkanen J;Pedersen D;Young R

  • Occupational asthma in Europe and other industrialised areas: a population-based study

    Manolis Kogevinas;Josep Maria Antó;Jordi Sunyer;Aurelio Tobias

  • Exposure to substances in the workplace and new-onset asthma: an international prospective population-based study (ECRHS-II)

    Manolis Kogevinas;Jan-Paul Zock;Debbie Jarvis;H Kromhout

  • A comprehensive evaluation of within- and between-worker components of occupational exposure to chemical agents.

    Hans Kromhout;Elaine Symanski;Stephen M. Rappaport

  • Biological dust exposure in the workplace is a risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Melanie Matheson;Geza Benke;Joan Raven;Malcolm Sim

  • The use of household cleaning sprays and adult asthma : an international longitudinal study

    Jan-Paul Zock;Estel Plana;Deborah Jarvis;Josep M. Antó

  • Is Pesticide Use Related to Parkinson Disease? Some Clues to Heterogeneity in Study Results

    Marianne van der Mark;Maartje Brouwer;Hans Kromhout;Peter Nijssen

  • Urinary Pesticide Concentrations Among Children, Mothers and Fathers Living in Farm and Non-Farm Households in Iowa

    Brian D. Curwin;Misty J. Hein;Wayne T. Sanderson;Cynthia Striley

  • Differences in the carcinogenic evaluation of glyphosate between the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

    Christopher J. Portier;Bruce K Armstrong;Bruce C Baguley;Xaver Baur

  • Occupational exposure to inhalable wood dust in the member states of the European Union.

    Timo Kauppinen;Raymond Vincent;Tuula Liukkonen;Michel Grzebyk

  • Conceptual model for assessment of dermal exposure

    Thomas Schneider;Roel Vermeulen;Derk H Brouwer;John W Cherrie

  • Suicide and exposure to organophosphate insecticides: Cause or effect?†

    Leslie London;A. J. Flisher;C. Wesseling;Donna Mergler

  • Occupational exposure to dusts, gases, and fumes and incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung and Heart Diseases in Adults.

    Amar J. Mehta;David Miedinger;Dirk Keidel;Robert Bettschart

  • Exposure to diesel motor exhaust and lung cancer risk in a pooled analysis from case-control studies in Europe and Canada.

    Ann C. Olsson;Per Gustavsson;Hans Kromhout;Susan Peters

Frequent Co-Authors

Roel Vermeulen
Roel Vermeulen Utrecht University
Dick Heederik
Dick Heederik Utrecht University
Kurt Straif
Kurt Straif International Agency For Research On Cancer
Paolo Boffetta
Paolo Boffetta Stony Brook Medicine
Neil Pearce
Neil Pearce London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Jack Siemiatycki
Jack Siemiatycki University of Montreal
Thomas Brüning
Thomas Brüning Ruhr University Bochum
Dario Consonni
Dario Consonni University of Milan
Karl-Heinz Jöckel
Karl-Heinz Jöckel University of Duisburg-Essen
Maria Teresa Landi
Maria Teresa Landi National Institutes of Health

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