Effect of nano-sized SiO2 particles on the cognitive function and biochemical response.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We aim to explore the association between blood heavy metal concentrations of cadmium, lead, and mercury with ever-report of eczema in the US population. METHODS:We used NHANES cross-sectional data from 2005-2006. Eczema was measured among 4509 adults and 3898 non-adults. The association between eczema and ...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Wei J,Zhang JJ,Ji JS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occupational hazards and respiratory symptoms of domestic cleaners in USA are largely unknown. We conducted a cross-sectional study among 56 Hispanic female domestic cleaner on their health status and frequency of cleaning products used and tasks performed. While women used multi-use products (60.0%) and toilet bo...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Whitworth KW,Berumen-Flucker B,Delclos GL,Fragoso S,Mata C,Gimeno Ruiz de Porras D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet (UV) light inherent to welding processes generates ozone (O(3)) with subsequent formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) through photochemical reactions when UV light is present with O(3). This study aimed to determine the performance of filters used as respiratory protective devices by welding personnel...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Chen HL,Chung SH,Jhuo ML

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a cross-sectional study conducted among paddy farmers to characterize potential risk factors that influence levels of DNA damage from exposure to mixtures of organophosphates. Comet assay was used to determine the level of DNA damage by measuring the comet tail length from the exfoliated buccal mucosa. The res...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： How V,Hashim Z,Ismail P,Omar D,Said SM,Tamrin SB

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, there is limited literature on occupational pesticide exposures despite being associated with adverse health outcomes, including in large states such as Texas. The purpose of this article is to characterize occupational pesticide poison center exposures in Texas. Descriptive statistics were used ...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Trueblood AB,Shipp EM

更新日期：2018-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors carried out a pilot study in Clermont-Ferrand (France) over the period from 2000 to 2001 to analyze the short-term relationship between daily variations in rhinitis and allergic conjunctivitis and daily variations in pollen counts. Data from the ERASME database made it possible to identify all the individu...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Zeghnoun A,Ravault C,Fabres B,Lecadet J,Quénel P,Thibaudon M,Caillaud D

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coffee workers respiratory health problems, found to be associated with dust exposure in the coffee factories, but the content of the dust is not well known. A cross-sectional survey was conducted to assess the microbial contamination of coffee in dry and wet coffee process, from four farms in two regions of Ethiopia....

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Abaya SW,Bråtveit M,Deressa W,Kumie A,Tenna A,Moen BE

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to examine induced sputum (IS) cells profile from restorers/conservators of cultural heritage (restorers) with no lower airway symptoms and normal ventilatory lung function. The study involved 22 restorers and 48 control workers. Medical interview, physical examination, spirometry, skin...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Kanceljak-Macan B,Trošić I,Varnai VM,Pavičić I,Macan J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate whether elevated blood lead level (BLL) is a risk factor for Helicobacter pylori infection. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed on 2,625 subjects who visited a university hospital for general health examination. H. pylori infection was detected using histologic exami...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Park WJ,Kim SH,Kang W,Ahn JS,Cho S,Lim DY,Kim S,Moon JD

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the first workplace intervention to help smokers quit in Hong Kong. Smoking employees (N = 642) received a 26-page self-help booklet and 15 fix SMS within 3 months and chose to receive cognitive behavioral workshop (N = 76), or face-to-face counseling (N = 11), or group health talk (N = 516), or telephone...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Wang MP,Suen YN,Li WHC,Lau OS,Lam TH,Chan SSC

更新日期：2018-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational health in Israel is unique as it was originally established as a socialized service which anchored in extensive legislation and is accessible to all employees and employers without copayment. We review historical processes and legal basis that led to current structure of public occupational medicine servi...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Rinsky-Halivni L,Cohen C,Moshe S,Amster E

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from the 2005-2006 and 2007-2008 NHANES questionnaires, we evaluated self-perceived vision difficulty in individuals with a history of farming, forestry, and fishing (FFF) occupations. A self-perceived vision difficulty indicator was derived from responses to 3 separate measures. Those indicating farming, f...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Siegel M

更新日期：2017-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 9,285 nuclear workers employed at the French company AREVA NC specializing in the nuclear fuel cycle was established. Vital status, causes of death, employment characteristics and annual exposure to ionizing radiation were reconstructed for each individual over the time period 1977-2004. Standardized morta...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Metz-Flamant C,Rogel A,Caër S,Samson E,Laurier D,Acker A,Tirmarche M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a work-related stress surveillance study in 2013 on 6,558 public-sector employees in Italy, examining how they perceived their jobs, via the Job Content Questionnaire, and their mental health status, via the General Health Questionnaire 12 (GHQ-12). Of the 2,094 employees completing the questionn...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Feola D,Pedata P,D'Ancicco F,Santalucia L,Sannolo N,Ascione E,Nienhaus A,Magliano L,Lamberti M

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors aimed to assess genotoxic damage in the lymphocytes of workers chronically exposed to ionizing radiation. The studied population included 15 exposed donors of the radiology unit of a public hospital in La Plata, Argentina. The control group included 15 nonexposed employers from administrative areas that th...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Güerci AM,Grillo CA,Dulout FN,Seoane AI

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aircraft maintenance crews are constantly exposed to severe aircraft noise. The purpose of this study was to verify whether noise from aircraft adversely affects the hearing threshold levels (HTLs) of aircraft maintenance conscripts during their 2 years of mandatory military service. This study included 3,000 male air...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Park WJ,Moon JD

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrast sensitivity (CS) emerged more than 30 years ago as an alternative to traditional acuity testing, and recently it has become the focus of attention in the field of neurotoxicology. CS testing may be useful for detecting defects in oculoneural processing and therefore possible chemical-induced neurotoxicity, su...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Waksman JC,Brody A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous symptom-based survey of veterans of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War suggested a neurological syndrome (blurred vision, loss of balance/dizziness, tremors/shaking, and speech difficulty). The authors conducted the present study to determine whether specific findings could indicate an organic basis for this po...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Levine PH,Richardson PK,Zolfaghari L,Cleary SD,Geist CE,Potolicchio S,Young HA,Simmens SJ,Schessel D,Williams K,Mahan CM,Kang HK

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The year 2017 marked the 50th anniversary of NIOSH's Respiratory Health Division (RHD). RHD began in 1967 as the Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Respiratory Diseases (ALFORD), with a focus on coal workers' pneumoconiosis. ALFORD became part of NIOSH in 1971 and added activities to address work-related respirat...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Cummings KJ,Johns DO,Mazurek JM,Hearl FJ,Weissman DN

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This overview of systematic reviews (SR) aims to determine how the potential confounding and/or mediating effects of lifestyle habits were taken into consideration in SR examining the job strain effect on cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence. Thirteen SR were identified. Lifestyle habits were often considered as con...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Riopel C,Lavigne-Robichaud M,Trudel X,Milot A,Gilbert-Ouimet M,Talbot D,Aubé K,Brisson C

更新日期：2020-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Appropriate daily exercise is recommended to remain healthy for adults, including medical professionals. In this study, the authors quantified daily physical activity of anesthesiologists in the operating room using a newly developed triaxial accelerometer, Jukudai Mate. During daily work, mean±SD energy expenditure o...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Tanaka H,Kawamata T,Gen-No H,Nose H,Kawamata M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate the aggregation of four leisure behaviors and the association between the number of leisure behaviors and common mental disorders (CMD). A cross-sectional study was carried out with a representative sample of healthcare workers of Brazil. The aggregation of the types of l...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Rocha SV,Barbosa AR,de Araújo TM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fitness instructors routinely use high music volumes that may be harmful to hearing. This study assessed noise levels during 35 low-intensity and 65 high-intensity fitness classes in 1997-1998 and 2009-2011. Questionnaires examined instructors' and clients' preferred music volumes and whether they found loud music "st...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Beach EF,Nie V

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The burden of occupational diseases and injuries is high in developing countries due to several challenges including poor regulatory frameworks. To explore the status of occupational safety and health (OSH) policies and related implementation challenges in Uganda, we reviewed OSH regulations and conducted key informan...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Atusingwize E,Musinguzi G,Ndejjo R,Buregyeya E,Kayongo B,Mubeezi R,Mugambe RK,Ali Halage A,Sekimpi DK,Bazeyo W,Wang JS,Ssempebwa JC

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of mycotoxigenic Penicillium species in poultry houses of Telangana, India, was studied during 4 seasons between June 2009 and May 2010. Fungi belonging to 13 genera, including Penicillium, comprising 43 species were collected using petri plates. Fourteen Penicillium species demonstrated varying degrees...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Koteswara Rao V,Girisham S,Madhusudhan Reddy S

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:South Korea has experienced rapid economic development over a 60-year period, since the 1960s, rising up from the ruins of the 1950-1953 Korean War. During this short period, South Korea experienced a wide range of occupational safety and health (OSH) problems, similar to that experienced in most developed countries a...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Park J,Kim Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors analyzed the effects of chronic exposure of Argentine air crew members to low doses of ionizing radiations. Genetic damage induced by either low doses or low rates of ionizing radiation was higher than expected. Seventy-one heparinized blood samples were obtained from technical ground workers (group A; n =...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： De Luca JC,Picco SJ,Macintyre C,Dulout FN,Lopez-Larraza DM

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work is a cross-sectional comparative study conducted on 528 residents in the slum and non-slum areas of Pokhara, Nepal. Of the total number of respondents, 90.2% in the slums and 63.3% in the non-slums indicated the existence of a main source of noise, and 80.7% in the slums and 66.0% in the non-slums replied th...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Choi E,Bhandari TR,Shrestha N

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This work was conducted to assess the impacts on workplace and ambient air quality due to release of sulfur dioxide (SO(2)) into the atmosphere at Al-Noor production station, located in southern desert of Sultanate of Oman. The SO(2) is released because of oxidation of H(2)S to SO(2) on flaring of H(2)S rich off gas a...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Abdul-Wahab S,Ali S,Sardar S,Irfan N

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the concentration of aluminum in the autopsied lungs of eight hardrock miners. These miners had inhaled McIntyre Powder (a mixture of aluminum and aluminum oxide) as a prophylaxis against silicosis. The study involved chemical analysis of lungs, where each whole lung was di...

journal_title：Archives of environmental & occupational health

authors： Verma DK

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00