Ira Tager, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Epidemiology
PHONE: (510) 642-9533
FAX: (510) 643-5163
LOCATION: 105 Haviland Hall
E-MAIL: ibt@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
- Effects of air pollution on human health
- Epidemiology of asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease
- Physical activity and disability in the elderly
- Community-based asthma prevention
Tujague J., Bastaki M., Holland N., Balmes J. Tager I. (2006). Associations between antioxidant intake, GSTM1 polymorphism and pulmonary function in healthy young adults. Europ Resp J; 27:282-8.
Chen C., A1jomandi D., Qin H., Balmes J., Tager I., Holland N. (2006). Cytogenetic Damage in Buccal Epithelia and Peripheral Lymphocytes of Young Healthy Individuals Exposed to Ozone. Mutagenesis; 21:131-7.
Adler A., Tager I., Quintero D.R. (2005). Decreased prevalence of asthma among farm-reared children compared with those who are rural but not farm-reared. J Allergy Clin Immuno1; 115:67-73.
Tager I.B., Balmes J., Lurmann F., Ngo L., Alcorn S., Kunzli N. (2005). Effect of chronic exposure to ambient ozone on lung function in young adults. Epidemiology; 16:751-9.
Tager I.B., Haight T., van der Laan M., Yu Z., Sternfeld B. (2004). Longitudinal study of the effects of physical activity and body composition on functional limitation in the elderly: Application of the marginal structural model. Epidemiology; 15:479-93.
Mortimer K.M., Tager I.B., Dockery D.W., Neas L.M., Redline S. (2000). The effect of ozone on inner-city children with asthma: Identification of susceptible subgroups, Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 162:1838-45.
Satariano W.A., Haight T.J., Tager I.B. (2000). Reasons given by older people for limitation or avoidance of physical exercise. J Amer Geriatr Soc, 48:505-12.
Tager IB, HollenberM, Satariano WA (1998). Self-reported leisure time physical activity and measures of cardiorespiratory fitness in an elderly population. Am J Epidemiol, 147:921-31.
Forastiere F., Balmes J., Scarinci M., Tager I.B., (1998). Occupation, asthma and chronic respiratory symptoms in a community sample of older women. Amer Respir Crit Care Med, 157:1864-70.
Kunzli N., Lurmann F., Segal M., Ngo L., Balmes J., Tager I.B. (1997). Assocation between lifetime ambient ozone exposure and pulmonary function in college freshman—Results of a pilot study. Environmental Res, 72:8-23.
Adler A., Tager I., Quintero D.R. (in press). Decreased prevalence of asthma among farm-reared children compared with those who are rural but not farm-reared. J Allergy Clin Immunol.
Profile updated: December 13, 2006