NYU Data Catalog

Description: The WTC Health Registry is an ongoing epidemiological cohort study created as a public health response to 9/11. The Registry includes multiple waves of surveys that are conducted approximately every 3 years. A fourth follow-up survey (Wave 5) was completed between 2020 and 2021. Data is available for: Wave 1 Adult Survey (2003-2004) Wave 2 Adult Survey (2006-2008) Wave 3 Adult Survey (2011-2012)...
Subject: Chronic Disease

Health Status

Population Characteristics

Risk Factors
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Mitchell Cohen

NYU Dataset

Authors: Yuyan Wang

Yinxiang Wu

Melanie H. Jacobson

Myeonggyun Lee

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Description: This record describes a cleaned dataset and supporting R code for a series of statistical models that were developed with data from the 2003–2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to assess the effects of environmental risk factors on continuous, categorical (binary), time-to-event, and longitudinal outcomes. Investigators utilized a unified partial-linear single-index (PLSI)...
Subject: Risk Factors
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NYU Dataset

Authors: David G. Luglio

Maria Katsigeorgis

Jade Hess

Rebecca Kim

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Description: To examine the air quality in metropolitan subway systems in the United States, investigators collected air samples from 71 stations across 12 transit lines in New York City (NYC), Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC during rush-hour periods. Samples of particulate matter (PM) and black carbon (BC) were collected from the Philadelphia transit system in 2015; all others were collected between June...
Subject: Risk Factors
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NYU Dataset

Authors: Kamrun Nahar

Md Mostafijur Rahman

Amna Raja

George Thurston

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Description: To study emissions from mobile food carts in New York City, investigators sampled the air quality around 19 food carts which used propane, charcoal, or a combination of propane and charcoal as cooking fuels. Food cart emissions were compared to air sampling at control sites located upwind and at least 100 meters away from the food carts under study. The study data includes real-time concentrations...
Subject: Risk Factors
Timeframe: 2019
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Alternate Title(s): Upstate New York Infant Development Screening, Upstate KIDS Follow-Up Study
Authors: Edwina Yeung
Description: The Upstate New York Infant Development Screening (Upstate KIDS) Study is a collaboration between the New York State Department of Health, University at Albany, and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The study includes information from over 5,034 mothers and their 6,171 children in New York State, excluding New York City, who were recruited...
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Authors: Vincent W. V. Jaddoe

Generation R Study Group
Description: Generation R is an ongoing prospective cohort study of child development from the prenatal period through young adulthood in a multi-ethnic population recruited from the Rotterdam, Netherlands metropolitan area. The study enrolled 9,778 mothers with a delivery date between April 2002 and January 2006; they had 9,749 live births. The primary objective of the study is to identify early environmental...
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NYU Dataset

Authors: Steven H. Rauchman

Lora J. Kasselman

Ankita Srivastava

Joshua De Leon

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Description: These data contain information on chemicals released in to the air from burn pits in Iraq (waste disposal areas for US military bases) and the 2023 Ohio train derailment in East Palestine. The goals of the study were to 1) predict the effects of exposure to these chemicals on the ocular surface and 2) to call attention to the relationship between environmental events and long-term damage to the surface...
Subject: Risk Factors
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