Shift work, job strain and changes in the body mass index among women: a prospective study.

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：BACKGROUND:Exposure to animals, their feeds, and by-products contribute to respiratory symptoms among farmers. AIMS:To investigate the role of animal exposures and wheeze, and to assess whether their impact differs among susceptible subgroups, including atopics, asthmatics, and smokers. METHODS:Using the Agricultural...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Hoppin JA,Umbach DM,London SJ,Alavanja MC,Sandler DP

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate associations between cancer incidence and exposure to coal tar pitch volatiles, asbestos, pot emissions (fluorides, sulphur dioxide), heat stress, and magnetic fields in workers from a Norwegian aluminium smelter that operated from 1914 to 1975. METHODS:Cancer incidence between 1953 and 1991 w...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Rønneberg A,Andersen A

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) had been shown to be a useful early marker of renal injury. In workers exposed to lead it seems to be the only early marker but the dose response and dose effect relations are weak. Furthermore, the significance and underlying mechanism of increased urinary NAG activity is...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Chia KS,Mutti A,Tan C,Ong HY,Jeyaratnam J,Ong CN,Lee E

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystalline silica is a widely used industrial material that is readily available worldwide, and is one of the most common types of particulate mineral pollutants. It has been classified as a group 1 human carcinogen of the respiratory system; however, whether it is linked to gastric cancer remains uncertain. We condu...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Lee W,Ahn YS,Lee S,Song BM,Hong S,Yoon JH

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the impact of workplace injury on opioid dependence, abuse and overdose (opioid-related morbidity) and if severity of injury increases the hazard of these health effects. METHODS:We used MarketScan databases to follow injured and propensity score matched non-injured workers, both without prior op...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Asfaw A,Boden LI

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pathogenesis of cataract is influenced by a number of factors including oxidative stress. Glutathione S-transferase (GST) catalyses the nucleophilic addition of the thiol of GST to electrophilic acceptors. It is important for detoxification of xenobiotics in order to protect tissues from oxidative damage...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Saadat M,Farvardin-Jahromi M

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine if the occurrence of different cancers was increased among rubber workers, as the highest known exposures of humans to nitrosamines have occurred in the rubber industry. METHODS:A cohort of 8933 rubber workers (hired after 1 January 1950, still active or retired on 1 January 1981 and employed for...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Straif K,Weiland SK,Bungers M,Holthenrich D,Taeger D,Yi S,Keil U

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Previous studies into occupational risk factors for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) in New Zealand have indicated that farmers and meat workers are at increased risk for these neoplasms. A new nationwide case-control study was conducted to assess whether previously observed associations persist and to identify ...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： 't Mannetje A,Dryson E,Walls C,McLean D,McKenzie F,Maule M,Cheng S,Cunningham C,Kromhout H,Boffetta P,Blair A,Pearce N

更新日期：2008-05-01 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

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There have been few studies of work history and mortality risks in medical radiation workers. We expanded by 11 years and more outcomes our previous study of mortality risks and work history, a proxy for radiation exposure. METHODS:Using Cox proportional hazards models, we estimated mortality risks accordin...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Liu JJ,Freedman DM,Little MP,Doody MM,Alexander BH,Kitahara CM,Lee T,Rajaraman P,Miller JS,Kampa DM,Simon SL,Preston DL,Linet MS

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess sensitivity and specificity of a questionnaire designed to detect neurotoxic symptoms in workers exposed to solvents and in patients with a psycho-organic syndrome. METHODS:The Swedish Q16 is a self administered questionnaire for neurotoxic symptoms. The modified German version consists of 18 ques...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Ihrig A,Triebig G,Dietz MC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether an increased risk of cardiovascular disease might be caused by increased arrhythmogeneity and by unfavourable changes in autonomic cardiac control the changes in the occurrence of premature complexes (PVCs) and in heart rate variability (HRV) were studied in subjects who started to wor...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： van Amelsvoort LG,Schouten EG,Maan AC,Swenne CA,Kok FJ

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Job exposure matrices (JEMs) can be constructed from expert-rated assessments, direct measurement and self-reports. This paper describes the construction of a general population JEM based on self-reported physical exposures, its ability to create homogeneous exposure groups (HEG) and the use of different exp...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Evanoff BA,Yung M,Buckner-Petty S,Andersen JH,Roquelaure Y,Descatha A,Dale AM

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermal uptake of chemicals at the workplace may contribute considerably to the total internal exposure and so needs to be regulated. At present only qualitative warning signs--the "skin notations"--are available as instruments. An attempt was made to develop a quantitative dermal occupational exposure limit (DOEL) com...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Bos PM,Brouwer DH,Stevenson H,Boogaard PJ,de Kort WL,van Hemmen JJ

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim was to test if targeting managers with an educational intervention reduces absence among pregnant employees. METHODS:The study was a non-blinded cluster randomised trial conducted in hospitals and daycare institutions from two administrative Danish Regions and two Danish municipalities. Clusters (wor...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Begtrup LM,Malmros P,Brauer C,Soegaard Toettenborg S,Flachs EM,Hammer PEC,Bonde JP

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Workers on dredgers and lighters on rivers are potentially exposed to a variety of substances. AIMS:To determine the internal load of heavy metals and arsenic as well as levels of cytogenetic markers in workers exposed to river silt aerosols. METHODS:One hundred exposed workers were examined up to eight ti...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Wegner R,Radon K,Heinrich-Ramm R,Seemann B,Riess A,Koops F,Poschadel B,Szadkowski D

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The study investigated the utility of unmetabolised naphthalene (Nap) and phenanthrene (Phe) in urine as surrogates for exposures to mixtures of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). METHODS:The report included workers exposed to diesel exhausts (low PAH exposure level, n = 39) as well as those exposed t...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Sobus JR,Waidyanatha S,McClean MD,Herrick RF,Smith TJ,Garshick E,Laden F,Hart JE,Zheng Y,Rappaport SM

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the relationship between protease exposure and respiratory disease in a cohort of detergent enzyme manufacturers. METHODS:Case-referent analysis of a cohort of employees working in a European detergent factory between 1989 and 2002. Cases with new lower or upper respiratory disease were ascertain...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Brant A,Upchurch S,van Tongeren M,Zekveld C,Helm J,Barnes F,Newman Taylor AJ,Cullinan P

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To test whether (1) physically demanding work is less frequent for older than younger employees, and whether (2) the association of physically demanding work with decline of physical functioning is stronger for older employees than their younger counterparts. The gender differences in these associations were exami...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Aittomäki A,Lahelma E,Roos E,Leino-Arjas P,Martikainen P

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(1) To investigate the association between temperature and work-related injuries and (2) to identify groups of workers at high risk of work-related injuries in hot environments in Adelaide, South Australia. METHODS:Workers' compensation claims in Adelaide, South Australia for 2001-2010 were used. The relati...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Xiang J,Bi P,Pisaniello D,Hansen A,Sullivan T

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the methods used in the nuclear industry family study for which a comprehensive database has been assembled that links employment in the nuclear industry and dosimetry records to information on employees' reproductive health and the health of their children. To discuss the response rates and chara...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Maconochie N,Doyle P,Roman E,Davies G,Smith PG,Beral V

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Prenatal occupational exposure to pesticides has been associated with male reproductive tract abnormalities. Little is known about the possible impact of non-occupational pesticide exposure on fetal and child development in the general population. Using data from a nationwide birth cohort, we aimed to assess...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Cognez N,Warembourg C,Zaros C,Metten MA,Bouvier G,Garlantézec R,Charles MA,Béranger R,Chevrier C

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Use of cost-benefit analysis in occupational health increases insight into the intervention strategy that maximises the cost-benefit ratio. This study presents a methodological framework identifying the most important elements of a cost-benefit analysis for occupational health settings. One of the main aims ...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Meijster T,van Duuren-Stuurman B,Heederik D,Houba R,Koningsveld E,Warren N,Tielemans E

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：AIMS:To assess the impact of newly introduced point-of-sale glass bottle recycling on indoor air quality and employee health. METHODS:Airborne exposures and both chronic and acute respiratory and somatic symptoms were surveyed among 226 employees at 36 randomly selected liquor stores with bottle recycling and in-house...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Kennedy SM,Copes R,Bartlett KH,Brauer M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate the mortality experience of a cohort of employees in the UK silica sand industry exposed to respirable crystalline silica (RCS). METHODS:A retrospective cohort mortality study followed all workers to 2001 with at least one year's employment at one of seven UK silica sand producing quarries between 195...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Brown TP,Rushton L

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mortality experience of 4702 (4413 men and 289 women) civilian workers in a US Coast Guard shipyard was evaluated. METHODS:All workers employed at the shipyard between 1 January 1950 and 31 December 1964 were included in the study and were followed through 31 December 2001 for vital status. Detailed shi...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Krstev S,Stewart P,Rusiecki J,Blair A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Meatpacking remains a hazardous and largely unexamined industry. Despite prevention efforts, laceration injuries, among others, remain high. We estimated the magnitude of associations between transient exposures such as equipment malfunction, performing an unusual work task, rushing, and occurrence of lacera...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Lander L,Sorock GS,Stentz TL,Eisen EA,Mittleman M,Hauser R,Perry MJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the risk of all cause mortality, cause specific mortality, and incident cancer in meatworkers. METHODS:In a retrospective cohort study, a list of members of a meatworkers union in Australia was matched with the national death and cancer registries. Standardised mortality ratios (SMR) and standardised...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Fritschi L,Fenwick S,Bulsara M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00