Inanaccompanying editorial, Noel S. Weiss, MD, DrPH, noted that "there areotherpossibleexplanationsfor theassociationwithprecipitation that [Waldman et al] haveobserved."
"There have been a lot of studies that indicate that there are probably other mechanisms, " says the senior author of the New York City study, Robin Whyatt, DrPH, a professor of clinical environmental health sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.