Performance of different exposure assessment approaches in a study of bitumen fume exposure and lung cancer mortality.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Occupational health researchers can play a pivotal role in increasing our understanding of the role of physical and psychosocial working conditions in producing socioeconomic health disparities and trends of increasing socioeconomic health disparities, contributing to interventions to reduce such dispariti...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Landsbergis PA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While assessment of subcontractors' safety performance during project bidding processes are common in commercial construction, the validation of organizational surveys used in these processes is largely absent. METHODS:As part of a larger research project called Assessment of Contractor Safety (ACES), we de...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Dennerlein JT,Weinstein D,Huynh W,Tessler J,Bigger L,Murphy L,Manjourides J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk of breast cancer was investigated in a large dynamic population-based cohort of all 1.1 million economically active women in Norway with potential exposure to 50 Hz magnetic fields at the censuses of 1960, 1970, and 1980. METHODS:The follow-up period for the cohort was 1961-1992. For each woman, da...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Kliukiene J,Tynes T,Martinsen JI,Blaasaas KG,Andersen A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective measures of exposure furnished by dust monitoring are both costly and time consuming and require a sufficient level of technology. However, they are important in demonstrating exposure-response relationships, in furnishing information necessary to establish environmental control levels, and to assess if inte...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Fonn S,Groeneveld HT,deBeer M,Becklake MR

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have long been case reports linking silica exposure to a variety of autoimmune diseases (systemic sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, chronic renal disease). Evidence of this association in larger epidemiologic studies has been increasing in the last decade. We summarize this evidence here, and present some ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Steenland K,Goldsmith DF

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A variety of neurophysiological measures are useful in hospital settings for diagnostic and other clinical purposes. Previously, abnormal changes in various sensory evoked potentials (EPs), and heart rate variability (HRV) were observed in patients with acquired and fetal Minamata disease (MD; methylmercury ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Murata K,Grandjean P,Dakeishi M

更新日期：2007-10-01 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:Self-reported exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) has been associated with elevated inflammatory markers in adults. The association between SHS indicated by serum cotinine and markers of inflammation has not been investigated in adult workers. METHODS:Using the subpopulation of employed participants (20 year...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Clark JD 3rd,Wilkinson JD,LeBlanc WG,Dietz NA,Arheart KL,Fleming LE,Lee DJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the possible actual exposure to benzene in the shoe industry from industrially used solvents, glues, and paints containing benzene as a nondeclared constituent, phenol in urine and benzene in blood, as indices of internal exposure to benzene, were measured in workers (N = 33). Since toluene, in c...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Karacić V,Skender L,Prpić-Majić D

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Existing datasets often lack job exposure data. Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes can link work exposure data to health outcomes via a Job Exposure Matrix, but manually assigning SOC codes is laborious. We explored the utility of two SOC autocoding programs. METHODS:We entered industry and oc...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Buckner-Petty S,Dale AM,Evanoff BA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined mortality to December 31, 1989 in a cohort of 2,222 males employed between 1947 and 1975 at a transformer manufacturing plant in Canada, where there had been extensive use of transformer fluid, some containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). A combined cohort list of 2,222 names was independently...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Yassi A,Tate R,Fish D

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to disinfectants among healthcare workers has been associated with respiratory health effects, in particular, asthma. However, most studies are cross-sectional and the role of disinfectant exposures in asthma development requires longitudinal studies. We investigated the association between occupati...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Dumas O,Boggs KM,Quinot C,Varraso R,Zock JP,Henneberger PK,Speizer FE,Le Moual N,Camargo CA Jr

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We applied the well-established, but rather under-utilized, indicator of Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL) to estimate the global burden of mesothelioma and asbestosis. METHODS:We analyzed all deaths caused by mesothelioma and asbestosis that were reported by 82 and 55 countries, respectively, to the Worl...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Diandini R,Takahashi K,Park EK,Jiang Y,Movahed M,Le GV,Lee LJ,Delgermaa V,Kim R

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine disparities between job control scores in Black and White subjects and attempt to discern whether self-rated low job control in Blacks may arise from structural segregation into different jobs, or represents individual responses to race-based discrimination in hiring or promotion. METHODS:Data fr...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Meyer JD

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cohort mortality and nested case-control studies were conducted involving 2,901 men employed 1 year or more between 1940 and 1986 at any of four California facilities of a major chemical company. Employees experienced fewer deaths from each of the major causes than were expected based on U.S., California, and local co...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Burchfiel CM,Cartmill JB,Axe FD,Bond GG

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although there are many studies on working adolescents, information on youth who simultaneously hold jobs on both a farm and in other sectors of the economy is lacking. METHODS:Six high schools in rural Minnesota were evaluated for adolescent work practices and injury incidence. A 20-page self-administered ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Munshi K,Parker DL,Bannerman-Thompson H,Merchant D

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rate of lost-time sprains and strains in private nursing homes is over three times the national average, and for back injuries, almost four times the national average. The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) has sponsored interventions that were preferentially promoted to nursing homes in 2000-200...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Park RM,Bushnell PT,Bailer AJ,Collins JW,Stayner LT

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the methodological challenges faced by intervention research in health care, workshops reviewed two intervention studies to reduce back injuries among nursing home staff and two studies on the use of precautions to prevent occupational transmission of bloodborne pathogens. These studies adapted ri...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Hersey JC,Collins JW,Gershon R,Owen B

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study explored economic consequences of work-related injuries using a longitudinal data source. METHODS:Data were from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 cohort (n = 12,686). Short-term consequences were measured when the injury was reported. "Difference-in-differences" approach was applie...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Dong XS,Wang X,Largay JA,Sokas R

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hispanic immigrant workers dominate California's hired farm workforce. Little is known about their health status; even less is known about those lacking employment authorization. METHODS:The California Agricultural Workers Health Survey (CAWHS) was a statewide cross-sectional household survey conducted in 1...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Villarejo D,McCurdy SA,Bade B,Samuels S,Lighthall D,Williams D 3rd

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Home healthcare workers (HHWs) provide medical and nonmedical services to home-bound patients. They are at great risk of experiencing violence perpetrated by patients (type II violence). Establishing the reliable prevalence of such violence and identifying vulnerable subgroups are essential in enhancing HHWs...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Byon HD,Lee M,Choi M,Sagherian K,Crandall M,Lipscomb J

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitoplasts from rabbit bone marrow cells in vitro incubated with benzene metabolites showed a concentration-dependent inhibition of mitochondrial RNA synthesis. The 50% molar inhibitory concentration for each metabolite was determined to be p-benzoquinone, 2 X 10(-6); phenol, 2.5 X 10(-5); hydroquinone, 5 X 10(-5); ca...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Kalf GF,Snyder R,Rushmore TH

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study genotoxic effects of exposure to low levels of benzene, single-strand breaks (SSB) in DNA of leukocytes and urinary levels of the oxidative DNA adduct 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8OHdG) were determined in 33 men occupationally exposed to benzene from gasoline and in 33 controls. The average exposure to benzene o...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Nilsson RI,Nordlinder RG,Tagesson C,Walles S,Järvholm BG

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies on the mortality of chemists have revealed a lower overall mortality but an excess of deaths from certain diseases, in particular, cancers. This study determined the causes of mortality of 4,012 chemists among 14,884 members of The Royal Society of Chemistry who were followed for a period of 25 years. ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Hunter WJ,Henman BA,Bartlett DM,Le Geyt IP

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple comorbidities have been reported among rescue/recovery workers responding to the 9/11/2001 WTC disaster. In this study, we developed an index that quantifies the cumulative physiological burden of comorbidities and predicts life expectancy in this cohort. METHODS:A machine learning approach (gradie...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Bello GA,Teitelbaum SL,Lucchini RG,Dasaro CR,Shapiro M,Kaplan JR,Crane MA,Harrison DJ,Luft BJ,Moline JM,Udasin IG,Todd AC

更新日期：2018-01-01 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:Around the globe, work has a heavy impact on health. To better advise policy makers, we assessed the global burden of disease and injury due to selected occupational hazards. This article presents an overview, and describes the methodology employed in the companion studies. METHODS:Using the World Health Or...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Nelson DI,Concha-Barrientos M,Driscoll T,Steenland K,Fingerhut M,Punnett L,Prüss-Ustün A,Leigh J,Corvalan C

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A joint study on effects of formaldehyde exposure in industrial populations by the National Cancer Institute and the Formaldehyde Institute, Inc. (Blair et al. [1986]: J Natl Cancer Inst 76: 1071-1084; Blair and Stewart [1989]: J Occup Med 31: 881, Blair et al. [1990]: Am J Ind Med 17:683-700) reported no significant ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Sterling TD,Weinkam JJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asthma has been found to be among the most common conditions in the working age population and is among the most common causes of work limitation, but we could find no longitudinal studies of employment among persons with this condition. METHODS:A panel of 601 persons with a diagnosis of asthma from random ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Yelin E,Henke J,Katz PP,Eisner MD,Blanc PD

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00