Roberta Pirastu

Sapienza University of Rome — Italy

Medicine · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

Occupational and environmental lung diseases(48), Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging(31), Air Quality and Health Impacts(21), Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment(16), Environmental Justice and Health Disparities(15)

Publications141 total

Asbestos exposure and asbestosis mortality in Italian cement‐asbestos cohorts: Dose‐response relationship and the role of competing death causes
American Journal of Industrial Medicine·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Rate advancement measurement for lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma in asbestos-exposed workers
Thorax·2022· 7 citedOpen Access
Mortality for Lung Cancer among PVC Baggers Employed in the Vinyl Chloride Industry
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·2022· 18 citedOpen Access
Factors Affecting Asbestosis Mortality Among Asbestos-Cement Workers in Italy
Annals of Work Exposures and Health·2020· 9 citedOpen Access
[SENTIERI: Epidemiological Study of Residents in National Priority Contaminated Sites. Fifth Report].
PubMed·2020· 40 cited
Role of asbestos clearance in explaining long-term risk of pleural and peritoneal cancer: a pooled analysis of cohort studies
Occupational and Environmental Medicine·2019· 34 citedOpen Access
Cumulative asbestos exposure and mortality from asbestos related diseases in a pooled analysis of 21 asbestos cement cohorts in Italy
Environmental Health·2019· 67 citedOpen Access
Association or causation in miasmas and mixtures: Bradford Hill and beyond.
PubMed·2019· 2 cited
Proportion of mesothelioma attributable to living in industrially contaminated areas in Italy
Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health·2019· 5 citedOpen Access
Long‐term effect of arsenic exposure: Results from an occupational cohort study
American Journal of Industrial Medicine·2019· 13 cited
Mortality from liver angiosarcoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, and cirrhosis among vinyl chloride workers
American Journal of Industrial Medicine·2018· 28 cited
[Mortality study update of workers exposed to vinyl chloride in plants located in Ferrara and Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna Region, Northern Italy)].
PubMed·2018· 3 cited
[Environmental justice in the epidemiological surveillance system of residents in Italian National Priority Contaminated Sites (SENTIERI Project)].
PubMed·2018· 7 cited
[The Congress for the 40 years of the Italian Epidemiological Association].
PubMed·2018
[Epidemiology of natural disasters: let us learn from the L'Aquila earthquake].
PubMed·2017
[SENTIERI-ReNaM: Discussion and concluding remarks].
PubMed·2017· 1 cited
[SENTIERI-ReNaM: Results].
PubMed·2017· 3 cited
[SENTIERI-ReNaM: Materials and methods].
PubMed·2017
[SENTIERI-ReNaM: Burden of disease from mesothelioma in national priority contaminated sites in Italy].
PubMed·2017· 2 cited
[SENTIERI-ReNaM: Rationale and objectives].
PubMed·2017· 2 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Pietro Comba(36), Amerigo Zona(14), Ivano Iavarone(13), Roberto Pasetto(13), Annibale Biggeri(9), Marco De Santis(9), Caterina Bruno(8), Corrado Magnani(7), Alessandro Marinaccio(7), Lucia Fazzo(7), Enzo Merler(6), Lucia Miligi(6), Marco Martuzzi(6), Paolo Girardi(6), Francesco Forastiere(5), Dario Mirabelli(5), Daniela Ferrante(5), Simona Menegozzo(5), Sara Tùnesi(5), Susanna Conti(5)