GIS Used to Link Pesticides to Parkinson’s Risk
A report (abstract, article requires subscription) in the April 15 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology by Beate Ritz, professor of epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health, and Sadie Costello, a former doctoral student at UCLA who is now at the University of California, Berkeley, found that Central Valley California residents who lived within 500 meters of fields sprayed between 1974 and 1999 had a 75-percent increased risk for Parkinson’s.
The pair, with input from other researchers, developed a GIS model to estimate human exposure to pesticides that used land-use maps and state pesticide-use reporting data.
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/21 at 06:40 AM |
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