Clara G. Sears Source Confirmed

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Clara G. Sears investigates the effects of environmental exposures on human health, with a particular focus on heavy metal toxicity and air quality. Her research explores the intersection of environmental justice and health disparities, considering how factors like proximity to coal-fired power plants impact neurobehavioral symptoms in children. Sears has also examined the relationship between urinary cadmium levels and cardiovascular diseases, including stroke, heart failure, and acute myocardial infarction, particularly among never-smokers. Additionally, she studies how physical activity can modify the impact of gestational exposure to environmental chemicals on adolescent cardiometabolic risk.

Sears is a faculty member at John Brown University. Her broader research interests encompass smoking behavior and cessation, noise effects and management, and air quality's health impacts.

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• h-index: 20
• Publications: 99
• Citations: 1,861