User profiles for L. Kavi

Lucy Kafui Akosua Kavi

Doctoral Student, University of Maryland- College Park
Verified email at umd.edu
Cited by 165

Occupational exposures among hair and nail salon workers: a scoping review

…, N Tchangalova, M DeSantiago, LKA Kavi - Current environmental …, 2019 - Springer
Purpose of Review To review the literature published from 2014 to 2019 on hair and nail
salon workers concerning exposure assessment, reproductive and respiratory endpoints, and …

Postural tachycardia syndrome is associated with significant symptoms and functional impairment predominantly affecting young women: a UK perspective

C McDonald, S Koshi, L Busner, L Kavi, JL Newton - BMJ open, 2014 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To examine a large UK cohort of patients with postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS),
to compare demographic characteristics, symptoms and treatment of PoTS at one centre …

Postural tachycardia syndrome and long COVID: an update

L Kavi - British Journal of General Practice, 2022 - bjgp.org
• Diarrhoea (69%)• Poor sleep• Exercise intolerance aSymptoms that develop when upright
and are relieved by reclining. midodrine, fludrocortisone, pyridostigmine, clonidine, and …

[HTML][HTML] Biomonitoring of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) among hairdressers in salons primarily serving women of color: A pilot study

LM Louis, LK Kavi, M Boyle, W Pool, D Bhandari… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hairdressers are exposed to volatile organic compounds (VOCs), many of which have been
linked to acute and chronic health effects. Those hairdressers serving an ethnic clientele …

Genetics and mechanisms of imidacloprid resistance in house flies

LAK Kavi, PE Kaufman, JG Scott - Pesticide biochemistry and physiology, 2014 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Lucy AK Kavi a , Phillip E. Kaufman b , Jeffrey G. Scott a …
(Diptera: Calliphoridae), and possible correlations with the linkage maps of Musca domestica L. …

[HTML][HTML] A profile of patients with postural tachycardia syndrome and their experience of healthcare in the UK

L Kavi, M Nuttall, DA Low, M Opie, L Nicholson… - Br J Cardiol, 2016 - bjcardio.co.uk
Aims This survey was developed to obtain a current profile of PoTS patients and their
experience of health services in the UK. It is hoped that the results will be used to increase the …

Postural tachycardia syndrome: multiple symptoms, but easily missed

L Kavi, MD Gammage, BP Grubb, BL Karabin - British Journal of General …, 2012 - bjgp.org
Experienced physicians3 and patient support groups11, 12 are aware that patients often
acquire inappropriate psychiatric diagnoses and consequently, distrust of doctors is common. …

[HTML][HTML] Observational case series of postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS) in post-COVID-19 patients

NP Gall, S James, L Kavi - The British journal of cardiology, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
There is emerging evidence that a proportion of patients who develop long (post)-COVID-19
have abnormalities in the regulation of their autonomic nervous system manifesting as …

Occupational exposures to phthalates among Black and Latina US hairdressers serving an ethnically diverse clientele: A pilot study

MD Boyle, LK Kavi, LM Louis, W Pool… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
… To facilitate comparison with the other phthalate metabolites reported in units of ng/mL, we
multiplied the ΣDEHP (μmol/L) values by the mean molecular weight of the DEHP metabolites …

Implementing a suspect screening method to assess occupational chemical exposures among US-based hairdressers serving an ethnically diverse clientele: a pilot …

MN Newmeyer, L Quirós-Alcalá, LK Kavi… - Journal of exposure …, 2023 - nature.com
… at 1000 µg/L in methanol from stock solutions of the individual compounds, and a working
solution of the internal standard carbamazepine-d 2 was prepared at 2500 µg/L in methanol (“…