Occupational factors and carpal tunnel syndrome.

abstract：:In view of the increasing incidence of diseases such as gastritis and ulcers in workers exposed to noise, we assessed whether noise does in fact affect gastric secretion. Then, considering the conflicting findings published on the effects of noise on gastric secretion, we also investigated whether the response was rel...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Tomei F,Papaleo B,Baccolo TP,Persechino B,Spanò G,Rosati MV

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Research Council's report "Protecting Youth at Work" addresses the health and safety consequences of work by youth in the United States. The report finds that a higher proportion of U.S. youth work than in any other developed nation and that as much as 80% of youth will have worked during their high schoo...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Wegman DH,Davis LK

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The national occupational standard values for benzene are 10 ppm for Australia, 10 ppm for Denmark, 10 ppm for Finland, 10 ppm for Japan, 10 ppm for The Netherlands, 10 ppm for the United States, and 5 ppm for Sweden; in the Federal Republic of Germany the technical guideline value is 8 ppm. Crude mineral oil contains...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Holmberg B,Lundberg P

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:In an epidemiologic study of 6,359 oil shale workers, 1,664 (46.7%) of 3,566 survivors were investigated. No excess of skin disease (as reported in response to a questionnaire) was found in men exposed to oil or dust, whether compared to men who were not exposed to oil or dust or to coalminers. A low prevalence of sim...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Seaton A,Louw SJ,Cowie HA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 1,117 asbestos insulation workers was established in 1963 and has been prospectively followed since then. Chest X-ray abnormalities detected at the initial medical examination, and interpreted according to the International Labour Office Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses are reported in this ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Lilis R,Selikoff IJ,Lerman Y,Seidman H,Gelb SK

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In conjunction with industrial hygiene surveys, mutagenicity studies were performed for the airborne contaminants in three polyurethane manufacturing plants. Airborne particles were collected on glass-fiber filters with Hi-Vol pumps from different locations in each plant. Gases were collected in multiple-sorbent cartr...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Ong TM,Stewart J,Whong WZ,Boeniger M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Occupational Cancer Monitoring (OCCAM) is an Italian organization that monitors occupational cancers, by area and industrial sector, by retrieving cases and employment history from official databases. OCCAM previously estimated a relative risk (RR) of lung cancer of about 1.32 among "metal treatment" workers...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Panizza C,Bai E,Oddone E,Scaburri A,Massari S,Modonesi C,Contiero P,Marinaccio A,Crosignani P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Workers in a potato processing plant were exposed at the particular workplace to large concentrations of airborne microorganisms and endotoxin. The presence of precipitins to microbial antigens was significantly correlated with the occurrence of the work-related respiratory and general symptoms that were found in 45.9...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Dutkiewicz J

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Using occupational data for more than 500 patients with cancers of the biliary tract (CBT) diagnosed between 1980 and 1984 in Shanghai, and employment information from the 1982 census for the Shanghai population, the associations between CBT and occupational categories were examined by standardized incidence ratios (S...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Chow WH,Ji BT,Dosemeci M,McLaughlin JK,Gao YT,Fraumeni JF Jr

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isasbest Ltd., an asbestos-cement factory in Israel, has established dust-preventive measures, maintained high ecological and medical standards, and assisted afflicted workers suffering from asbestos-related diseases. The problems of the handling of asbestos and its relationship to health should be approached accordin...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Sharon A

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The influence of a 24-hr shift-work burden on firefighters' mental health has not been fully investigated. The purpose of this study is to clarify the relationships between specific workload items among firefighters engaged in 24-hr shift work and job stress as estimated by the generic job-stress questionnai...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Saijo Y,Ueno T,Hashimoto Y

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Occupational safety and health (OSH) programs are a strategy for protecting workers' health, yet there are few peer-reviewed reports on methods for assessing them, or on the prevalent characteristics of OSH programs, especially in small businesses. METHODS:We adapted an occupational safety and health admini...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Barbeau E,Roelofs C,Youngstrom R,Sorensen G,Stoddard A,LaMontagne AD

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A major French chlorine chemical plant (chlor-alkali process with diaphragm cell and manufacturing of organochlorine chemicals) has used or produced known or suspected carcinogenic compounds. METHODS:A cohort study, based on the plant occupational health service and the regional cancer registry, analyzed th...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Bonneterre V,Mathern G,Pelen O,Balthazard AL,Delafosse P,Mitton N,Colonna M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acoustic neuroma is the intracranial tumor subtype showing the highest relative risk in relation to ionizing radiation but other environmental risk factors are largely unknown. This study was performed to investigate the effect of power frequency magnetic fields. METHOD:A total of 793 cases between 1987 and...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Forssén UM,Lönn S,Ahlbom A,Savitz DA,Feychting M

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organophosphate (OP)-related systemic illnesses reported to the Worker Health and Safety (WH&S) Branch, and restricted OP-related agricultural use data reported to the Information Services Branch at the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) (now CAL-EPA) during 1984-1988 were used to assess factors asso...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Weinbaum Z,Schenker MB,Gold EB,Samuels SJ,O'Malley MA

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Occupational cancer monitoring is important for cancer prevention and public health protection. A surveillance system for identifying occupational cancer risks and cancer cases in Italy that are likely to be of occupational origin using information available in the Italian Social Security archives was create...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Crosignani P,Massari S,Audisio R,Amendola P,Cavuto S,Scaburri A,Zambon P,Nedoclan G,Stracci F,Pannelli F,Vercelli M,Miligi L,Imbriani M,Berrino F

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Climate change is a natural phenomenon that has been intensified due to increased emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). It has become an indispensable issue in international negotiations related to global sustainability and is deeply related to the overall status of environmental health in our planet. METHOD...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Leripio Ade A,Torres JP,Viana Mde S,Echelmeier GR

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational diseases are now being assessed at the cellular and molecular levels; this presents new opportunities for prevention and control [Calleman et al., 1978; Ong et al., 1987; Stejskal et al., 1989; Welch and Cullen, 1988; Garry et al., 1989]. The key to these opportunities is the ability to detect biological ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Schulte PA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medical management of three individuals involved in an exposure incident to whole-body radiation at a nuclear generating plant of a Canadian electrical utility is described. The exposure incident resulted in the two highest whole-body radiation doses ever received in a single event by workers in a Canadian nuclear...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： House RA,Sax SE,Rumack ER,Holness DL

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:A case-control study on work with video screen equipment during pregnancy has been made for three cohorts of women, identified with the aid of occupational codes in the census, linked to the Medical Birth Registry and a registry containing information on women hospitalized for spontaneous abortion. Five hundred and tw...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Ericson A,Källén B

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathologists eligible for inclusion in the study were identified from the membership lists of the Royal College of Pathologists from 1974 to 1987, establishing a population of 4,512 members. Overall mortality was lower among the study group compared with the general population of England and Wales, although there were...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Hall A,Harrington JM,Aw TC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethylene oxide was tested in environmental air and in the alveolar air of 10 workers employed in a hospital sterilizer unit at hourly intervals during the work shift. Alveolar ethylene oxide concentrations (Ca) were correlated with environmental concentration (Ci) in all the workers studied (r = 0.89-0.99). The ratio ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Brugnone F,Perbellini L,Faccini G,Pasini F

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory health variables were studied cross-sectionally in 227 employees of a plastics molding facility where numerous complaints had been apparently associated with the use of azodicarbonamide foaming agent in injection molding. Pre- and postshift respiratory status measures and azodicarbonamide concentrations we...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Whitehead LW,Robins TG,Fine LJ,Hansen DJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For various reasons, data on smoking are frequently missing, or only partially available, in retrospective epidemiologic studies of occupational risk factors. In such situations, indirect methods may be used to evaluate the magnitude and direction of the potentially confounding effects of smoking. Such an evaluation c...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Axelson O,Steenland K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Investigations of breast cancer among men may provide clues for environmental and occupational risk factors that may be difficult to study in women, because of confounding or effect modification from reproductive female characteristics. The objective was to estimate occupation-specific risks of male breast c...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Pollán M,Gustavsson P,Floderus B

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bassett Farm Safety and Health Project was started in 1980 when Drs. May and Pratt made clinical observations on respiratory illnesses in farmers. The initial work involved the investigation of clinical syndromes associated with dust exposures and, from there, environmental dust studies. The current scope of work ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Pratt DS

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-eight patients with a diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma participated in a semi-structured interview to evaluate asbestos exposure, acquisition of increased risk information, and retrospective reporting of cognitive and behavioral reactions (particularly smoking behavior) to risk information. Twenty-eight pati...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Lebovits AH,Chahinian AP,Holland JC

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00