Performance of self-reported occupational exposure compared to a job-exposure matrix approach in asthma and chronic rhinitis.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess occupational exposure to inorganic germanium (Ge) in workers from a producing plant, and to assess the health of these workers, with a special focus on respiratory, kidney, and liver functions. METHODS:Cross sectional study of 75 workers exposed to Ge and 79 matched referents. Exposure was charact...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Swennen B,Mallants A,Roels HA,Buchet JP,Bernard A,Lauwerys RR,Lison D

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Male breast cancer is a rare disease of largely unknown aetiology. In addition to genetic and hormone-related risk factors, a large number of environmental chemicals are suspected of playing a role in breast cancer. The identification of occupations or occupational exposures associated with an increased inci...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Villeneuve S,Cyr D,Lynge E,Orsi L,Sabroe S,Merletti F,Gorini G,Morales-Suarez-Varela M,Ahrens W,Baumgardt-Elms C,Kaerlev L,Eriksson M,Hardell L,Févotte J,Guénel P

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An association has previously been reported between finger blanching and hearing difficulties, but only in workers with exposure to noise and hand transmitted vibration (HTV). AIMS:To explore the association in a community sample, including cases who lacked occupational exposure to noise or HTV. METHOD:A q...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Palmer KT,Griffin MJ,Syddall HE,Pannett B,Cooper C,Coggon D

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Although past studies of workplace exposures have contributed greatly to our understanding of carcinogens, significant knowledge gaps still exist with regard to the actual extent of exposure among current workers, with no routinely collected population-based data being available in most countr...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Carey RN,Driscoll TR,Peters S,Glass DC,Reid A,Benke G,Fritschi L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The fit note, introduced in England, Wales and Scotland in 2010, was designed to change radically the sickness certification process from advising individuals on their inability to work to advising them on what they could do if work could be adapted. Our review aimed to evaluate the following: (1) Is the 'ma...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Dorrington S,Roberts E,Mykletun A,Hatch S,Madan I,Hotopf M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the prevalence and risk factors for symptoms related to gloves, and the relation between symptoms and immunological evidence of type 1 hypersensitivity to latex in a United Kingdom health care setting. METHODS:A cross sectional survey was carried out among 773 employees at a British hospital. A...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Smedley J,Jury A,Bendall H,Frew A,Coggon D

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Sick building syndrome (SBS) is described as a group of symptoms attributed to the physical environment of specific buildings. Isolating particular environmental features responsible for the symptoms has proved difficult. This study explores the role and significance of the physical and psychosocial work env...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Marmot AF,Eley J,Stafford M,Stansfeld SA,Warwick E,Marmot MG

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The current study examines and compares the relationship between both macroeconomic and industry-specific business cycle indicators, and work-related injuries among construction workers in Denmark using emergency department (ED) injury data and also officially reported injuries to the Danish Working Environm...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Nielsen KJ,Lander F,Lauritsen JM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the fraction of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) that is attributable to work in the total adult population of the island of Montreal. METHODS:The population consisted of 1.1 million people 20-64 years of age, with 73.2% of men and 60.6% of women employed. The rates of first surgery for CTS were comp...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Rossignol M,Stock S,Patry L,Armstrong B

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the question of whether there is an association between workplace exposures and sociodemographic factors and mortality from non-malignant respiratory disease excluding influenza and pneumonia (NMRDxIP) among workers in a fibreglass wool manufacturing facility. METHODS:A case-control study wit...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Chiazze L,Watkins DK,Fryar C,Fayerweather W,Kozono J,Biggs V

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the healthy worker survivor effect (HWSE) in a study of Vermont granite workers by distinguishing "prevalent" from "incident" hires based on date of hire before or after the start of follow-up. METHODS:Records of workers between 1950 and 1982 were obtained from a medical surveillance programme. Pr...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Applebaum KM,Malloy EJ,Eisen EA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine an association between specific IgE to methyltetrahydrophthalic anhydride (MTHPA) and exposure time, atopic history, smoking habits, and total IgE concentrations. METHODS:A cross sectional survey was carried out on a population of 148 workers from two condenser plants using epoxy resin with MTHPA...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Yokota K,Johyama Y,Yamaguchi K,Fujiki Y,Takeshita T,Morimoto K

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Introduced in the UK in 2010, the fit note was designed to address the problem of long-term sickness absence. We explored (1) associations between demographic variables and fit note receipt, 'maybe fit' use and long-term conditions, (2) whether individuals with long-term conditions receive more fit notes and...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Dorrington S,Carr E,Stevelink SAM,Dregan A,Whitney D,Durbaba S,Ashworth M,Mykletun A,Broadbent M,Madan I,Hatch S,Hotopf M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To appraise epidemiological evidence of the purported association between residential exposure to power frequency magnetic fields and adult cancers. METHODS:Literature review and epidemiological evaluation. RESULTS:Seven epidemiological studies have been conducted on the risk of cancer among adults in rela...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Li CY,Thériault G,Lin RS

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Stand Back study evaluated the feasibility and effects of a multicomponent intervention targeting reduced prolonged sitting and pain self-management in desk workers with chronic low back pain (LBP). METHODS:This randomised controlled trial recruited 27 individuals with chronic LBP, Oswestry Disability In...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Barone Gibbs B,Hergenroeder AL,Perdomo SJ,Kowalsky RJ,Delitto A,Jakicic JM

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 4320 uranium miners in West Bohemia who started work at the mines during 1948 to 1959 and worked there for at least four years were followed up to the end of 1990 to determine cause specific mortality risks in relation to exposures in the mines. The miners had experienced high radon exposures, on average 2...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Tomásek L,Swerdlow AJ,Darby SC,Placek V,Kunz E

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four workers chronically exposed to elemental mental mercury in a lampsocket manufacturing factory were studied. The clinical manifestations were severe in one, mild in another, and suspicious in the remaining two. Correlation between severity of clinical features and increased urinary mercury concentrations was found...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Yang YJ,Huang CC,Shih TS,Yang SS

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Controversy still exists about the breast carcinogenic properties in humans of environmental xenoestrogens (organochlorines), justifying new investigations. AIMS:To compare the blood levels of total dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) in samples collected at the time of breast ...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Charlier C,Albert A,Herman P,Hamoir E,Gaspard U,Meurisse M,Plomteux G

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To obtain knowledge on male reproductive toxicity of inorganic lead at current European exposure levels and to establish lowest adverse effect levels, if any. METHODS:A cross sectional survey of the semen of 503 men employed by 10 companies was conducted in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Belgium. The mean b...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Bonde JP,Joffe M,Apostoli P,Dale A,Kiss P,Spano M,Caruso F,Giwercman A,Bisanti L,Porru S,Vanhoorne M,Comhaire F,Zschiesche W

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Commercial airline crew is one of the occupational groups with the highest exposures to ionising radiation. Crew members are also exposed to other physical risk factors and subject to potential disruption of circadian rhythms. METHODS:This study analyses mortality in a pooled cohort of 93 771 crew members f...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Hammer GP,Auvinen A,De Stavola BL,Grajewski B,Gundestrup M,Haldorsen T,Hammar N,Lagorio S,Linnersjö A,Pinkerton L,Pukkala E,Rafnsson V,dos-Santos-Silva I,Storm HH,Strand TE,Tzonou A,Zeeb H,Blettner M

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This study examines the impact of work-related psychosocial and mechanical exposure on the development of low back pain (LBP) in the general working population. METHODS:A randomly drawn cohort from the general population in Norway aged 18-66 years was followed up for 3 years (n=12 550, response rate at baseline=6...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Sterud T,Tynes T

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex and dynamic physiologic processes underlie the exposure-response relations that occupational and environmental epidemiologists study. Simple summary measures of exposure such as the average, cumulative exposure, or duration of exposure, can be applied suitably in exposure-response analyses in many instances. H...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Kriebel D,Checkoway H,Pearce N

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To study the risk of childhood cancer in relation to parental occupation and related exposures. METHODS:Self reported occupational data from mothers and fathers of 3838 children with cancer and 7629 control children were analysed. Odds ratios were calculated for 31 "occupational groups" by parent, diagnostic grou...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： McKinney PA,Fear NT,Stockton D,UK Childhood Cancer Study Investigators.

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the prevalence of enzyme sensitisation in the animal feed industry. METHODS:A cross sectional study was conducted in four animal feed factories, where several enzymes had been used in powder form for 7-9 years. Before this study, enzymes in liquid form had started to be used. Sensitisation to enzy...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Vanhanen M,Tuomi T,Tiikkainen U,Tupasela O,Tuomainen A,Luukkonen R,Nordman H

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of amosite cored asbestos bodies isolated from human lungs to catalyse damage to phi X174 RFI DNA in vitro was measured and compared with that of uncoated amosite fibres with a similar distribution of length. Asbestos bodies (5000 bodies) suspended for 30 minutes in 50 mM NaCl containing 0.5 micrograms phi...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Lund LG,Williams MG,Dodson RF,Aust AE

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The main objective was to study the acute vascular effects in the hands of normal healthy subjects of a complex vibration spectrum similar to that generated by many industrial hand held tools. The effects of repeated bouts of vibrations and alterations in the intensity of vibration were also studied. METHOD...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Egan CE,Espie BH,McGrann S,McKenna KM,Allen JA

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the effects of chronic exposure to lead on the peripheral nervous system in lead workers. METHODS:Nerve conduction velocity and electromyographic studies were performed on 31 lead workers of a battery recycling factory and 31 sex and age matched controls. 25 cases with mild distal extensor weakn...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Yeh JH,Chang YC,Wang JD

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Few studies have examined whether exposure to chlorinated solvents is associated with multiple myeloma. We evaluated associations between multiple myeloma and occupational exposure to six chlorinated solvents: 1,1,1-trichloroethane, trichloroethylene (TCE), methylene chloride (DCM), perchloroethylene, carbon...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Gold LS,Stewart PA,Milliken K,Purdue M,Severson R,Seixas N,Blair A,Hartge P,Davis S,De Roos AJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether CFS-like caseness (meeting the criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)) predicts work status in the long term. METHODS:Prospective study in a sample of fatigued employees absent from work. Data were collected at baseline and four years later, and included CFS-like caseness and work stat...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Huibers MJ,Leone SS,Kant IJ,Knottnerus JA

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the relation between fluctuations in personal exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO(2)) in school children and changes in outdoor NO(2) concentrations. METHODS:114 Asthmatic school children aged 7-12 years were recruited from the Southampton area. Weekly average personal exposures to NO(2) were me...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Linaker CH,Chauhan AJ,Inskip HM,Holgate ST,Coggon D

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00