Diesel exhaust exposure and lung cancer: adjustment for the effect of smoking in a retrospective cohort study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Noise exposure in the sawmill industry is an area of concern. This study documents the level of noise exposure in nine sawmills in the province of Alberta, Canada. METHODS:Personal noise monitoring data were collected in nine Alberta sawmills, in winter and in summer (n = 213). Exposures were considered in ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Koehncke N,Taylor M,Taylor C,Harman L,Hessel PA,Beaulne P,Guidotti T

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The oncogene product EGF-receptor (EGF-R), the tumor suppressor gene product p53, and anti-p53 antibodies are detectable in serum of certain cancer patients. Increased levels of some of these products were reported in lung cancer patients after occupational asbestos exposure, after exposure to polycyclic aro...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Schneider J,Presek P,Braun A,Woitowitz HJ

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While blood lead concentration has been inversely associated with indicators of reproductive health in occupationally exposed male workers, the utility of lead concentration in semen as an indicator of lead exposure to the male reproductive system has not been fully explored. Blood and semen lead concentrations from 8...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Alexander BH,Checkoway H,Faustman EM,van Netten C,Muller CH,Ewers TG

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:From 1970 through 1997, 17 intracranial neoplasms were identified among 6,800 employees of a petrochemical research facility. This investigation describes the case-series. METHODS:The intracranial neoplasms were identified by self reports and record linkages, and were confirmed by medical records and a path...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Delzell E,Beall C,Rodu B,Lees PS,Breysse PN,Cole P

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Construction industry workers are exposed to many hazards leading to fatal and nonfatal injuries. Information for nonfatal work-related injury surveillance may be vague and come from a variety of sources. METHODS:The Alaska Trauma Registry (ATR) is used as an injury surveillance tool to focus on hospitalize...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Husberg BJ,Fosbroke DE,Conway GA,Mode NA

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective analysis reviews the clinical experience of a major urban referral hospital with diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma during the 14-year period from 1973 through 1986. Seventy-five cases of definite or equivocal mesothelioma were identified. There were four cases of primary malignant peritoneal me...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Shepherd KE,Oliver LC,Kazemi H

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Use of worker's compensation (WC) as payer underestimates work-related (WR) injuries. We evaluated three methods to identify WR injuries: WC as payer, ICD-9-CM work-status codes E000.0/E000.1, and other ICD-9-CM external cause codes. METHODS:We identified injury-related emergency department visits from Nort...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Harduar Morano L,Richardson D,Proescholdbell S

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lead stabilizers (e.g., lead sulfate, lead stearate) are common additives in plastics used in electrical devices. In 1997, three plastics compounders at one California company were severely lead-poisoned. METHODS:The poisonings were investigated by interviewing the workers, employer, and treating physician ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Coyle P,Kosnett MJ,Hipkins K

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The peripheral nerve conduction velocity (NCV), distribution of nerve conduction velocities (DCV), somatosensory, visual, and brainstem auditory evoked potentials (SEP, VEP, and BAEP, respectively), event-related potential (P300), computerized static posturography with spectral analysis (postural balance), a...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Araki S,Sato H,Yokoyama K,Murata K

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of retroperitoneal fibrosis is unknown in 70% of the cases. The aim of our study was to examine the possible association between occupational asbestos exposure and retroperitoneal fibrosis; only two cases have been reported in the literature. We gathered all the cases of retroperitoneal fibrosis diagnosed...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Sauni R,Oksa P,Järvenpää R,Parker JE,Roto P

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few epidemiologic studies have addressed the exposure-response relationships between work activities and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA). This analysis used data from a national survey and ergonomists' ratings to address this issue. METHODS:Interview and knee X-ray data were obtained from the Third Nat...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： D'Souza JC,Werner RA,Keyserling WM,Gillespie B,Rabourn R,Ulin S,Franzblau A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional prevalence study of 120 public school custodians was carried out. The purposes were 1) to investigate the prevalence of asbestos-related disease in a group of custodians at risk for asbestos exposure in public schools and 2) to determine the proportion with disease attributable to exposures in school...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Oliver LC,Sprince NL,Greene R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combined data sources, including union administrative records and workers' compensation claims, were used to construct event histories for a dynamic cohort of union carpenters from Washington State during the period 1989-1992. Person-time at risk and the events of interest were stratified by age, sex, time in the unio...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Lipscomb HJ,Dement JM,Loomis DP,Silverstein B,Kalat J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigators must often rely on self-reported work history information collected with questionnaires. However, little is known about the agreement between self-reported estimates of exposure and records kept by companies. As part of a cross-sectional medical study of structural fumigation workers, self-reported work ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Calvert GM,Mueller CA,O'Neill VL,Fajen JM,Briggle T,Fleming LE

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sickness benefit claims are an important economic burden to society. This study aims to determine the incidence of sickness benefit claims in Brazil in 2008, exploring the role of economic activity. METHODS:Population-based study on sickness claims lasting longer than 15 days of sickness absence granted to ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Barbosa-Branco A,Souza WR,Steenstra IA

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is growing evidence that exposure to organic solvents can play a role in the etiology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This prospective cohort study aimed to investigate the association between RA and toluene exposure. METHODS:The study cohort consisted of Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency data...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Min YS,Lee S,Kim M,Ahn YS

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:To confirm the relationship between exposure to coal tar pitch volatiles and bladder cancer among primary aluminum production workers, we carried out a case-control study among blue-collar workers who had worked more than 1 year between 1950-1979 in a major plant using mostly the Soderberg process in the Province of Q...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Tremblay C,Armstrong B,Thériault G,Brodeur J

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inhalational exposure to zinc oxide fumes is associated with metal fume fever, a self-limited but very uncomfortable condition closely resembling influenza. Very little is known regarding the toxicokinetics of inhaled zinc, making the interpretation of zinc measurements in serum and urine problematic. METHO...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Martin CJ,Le XC,Guidotti TL,Yalcin S,Chum E,Audette RJ,Liang C,Yuan B,Zhang X,Wu J

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal studies suggest that mesothelioma is most effectively induced by fibers longer than 8 mu. However, studies of asbestos fibers recovered from human lungs in cases of mesothelioma indicate that, at least in large-scale samples, relatively few fibers meet this size criterion, perhaps implying that the animal data ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Churg A,Wiggs B

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model was created to assess occupational exposure to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields (ELF-MF) among semiconductor fabrication-room (fab) workers. This model was based on the assumption that each subject's exposure arose from being near identifiable ELF-MF sources or being in areas with high ELF-MF levels. To...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Abdollahzadeh S,Hammond SK,Schenker MB

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several research projects on work-related respiratory diseases have been conducted in Finland. One of the largest, "Farmers' Occupational Health Programme," was conducted by the Social Insurance Institution of Finland during 1973-1983 in cooperation with Kuopio Regional Institute of Occupational Health and the Nationa...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Terho EO

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study estimates the annual cost of alcohol-related injuries to employers in 1998-2000. METHODS:Incidence was estimated with occupational injury data, motor vehicle crash data and health care data for 1998-2000. Employer costs were estimated from federal estimates of injury costs by source of payment us...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Zaloshnja E,Miller TR,Hendrie D,Galvin D

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood histamine levels were measured by the bioassay of histamine (on an isolated strip of guinea pig ileum) in workers exposed to cotton dust in a textile mill in Ahmedabad. Byssinotic subjects showed very high levels of blood histamine as compared to nonbyssinotic and control subjects. The blood histamine levels wer...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Parikh JR,Venkatakrishna-Bhatt H,Panchal GM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemically induced epidermal carcinogenesis is usually divided into two stages: initiation, which involves the conversion of some epidermal cells into latent neoplastic cells; and promotion, which results in tumors. The hallmark of chemical promoters is epidermal hyperplasia. The hyperplasia caused by a strong promote...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Argyris TS

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatological disorders in athletes may occur as a result of repeated mechanical trauma, physical and chemical agents, climatic conditions, infections, infestations, and exacerbations of pre-existing skin disorders. These include black heel, tennis toe and other causes of subungual hemorrhage, friction blisters, abra...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Bergfeld WF,Taylor JS

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limitations on the use of full halogenated chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) may create occupational environmental problems. These are currently largely unknown, because the toxicology of most CFC substitutes is unknown. Therefore, toxicity testing of CFC substitutes is necessary, and this can best be done before their use c...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Olander L,Colmsjö A,Holmberg B,Krantz S,Landström U

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a comparative study of pulmonary dysfunction among workers who were exposed to silica, asbestos, or coalmine dust. The results showed that all three groups of dust-exposed workers, even those without radiographic signs of pneumoconiosis, had decreased spirometric parameters and diffusing capacity (DLco) i...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Wang X,Yano E,Nonaka K,Wang M,Wang Z

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past 10 years there has been growing awareness among occupational health professionals worldwide of the large burden of illness associated with musculoskeletal disorders of the neck and upper limbs. It has been suggested that these disorders are associated with highly repetitive work and are due, at least in pa...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Stock SR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term exposure to lead is known to cause a variety of neurotoxic manifestations, including symptoms of depression. Dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA), a recently approved oral chelating agent, can diminish the body burden of lead, but few cases of documented clinical improvement following treatment have been reported....

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Frumkin H,Gerr F

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to compile nationally representative statistics describing inpatient hospital care for patients with work-related injuries and illnesses covered under workers' compensation (WC) insurance in the United States. METHODS:Three years of data (1997-1999) from the Nationwide Inpatient Sa...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Dembe AE,Mastroberti MA,Fox SE,Bigelow C,Banks SM

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00