Work related musculoskeletal disorders and ergonomic stressors in the South African workforce.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore the significance of the increase in urinary excretion of the lysosomal enzyme beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase (NAG) at low exposures to cadmium (Cd) that is frequently found in the absence of any other sign of renal dysfunction. METHODS:The activity was measured of the two main isoenzymes of NAG (NA...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Bernard A,Thielemans N,Roels H,Lauwerys R

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study assessed the efficacy of preventive measures in a graphite electrode plant aimed at reducing occupational exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). METHODS:Electrode workers (n = 146) answered a questionnaire and provided an end of shift urine sample. Urinary 1-hydroxypyrene (1-hpur), a...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： dell'Omo M,Muzi G,Marchionna G,Latini L,Carrieri P,Paolemili P,Abbritti G

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：:The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified occupational exposure as a painter as 'carcinogenic to humans', largely based on increased risks of bladder and lung cancer. A meta-analysis, including more than 2900 incident cases or deaths from bladder cancer among painters reported in 41 cohort (n=2), ...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Guha N,Steenland NK,Merletti F,Altieri A,Cogliano V,Straif K

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Depressive symptoms are associated with sickness absence, work disability and unemployment, but little is known about worklife expectancy (WLE). This study investigates the impact of depressive symptoms on the WLE of a large sample of Danish employees. METHODS:We used occupational health survey data of 11 96...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Pedersen J,Thorsen SV,Andersen MF,Hanvold TN,Schlünssen V,Bültmann U

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the sources of high concentrations of particles of < 10 microns diameter (PM10) in classrooms, observed in a previous study on childhood exposure to PM10, and to study the correlation between classroom and outdoor concentrations of mass and elements of PM10. METHODS:Measurements of PM10 were ...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Janssen NA,Hoek G,Brunekreef B,Harssema H

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Assessment of level of exposure to platinum and platinum concentration in urine from platinum industry workers to evaluate internal exposures and excretion kinetics. METHODS:Platinum concentrations in urine samples from 34 workers were measured by adsorptive voltammetry after UV-photolysis. Morning and even...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Schierl R,Fries HG,van de Weyer C,Fruhmann G

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality data have been updated for a further 12 years for a cohort of workers in the reinforced plastics and composites industry with exposures to styrene monomer and other chemicals. The cohort consisted of 15,826 male and female employees who were exposed to styrene for at least six months between 1948 and 1977 at...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Wong O,Trent LS,Whorton MD

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To review and summarise the epidemiological evidence on the carcinogenicity of occupational exposure to inorganic lead. METHODS:Case-control and cohort studies were reviewed and combined for meta-analysis. Fixed and random effect methods were used to estimate the summary effects. RESULTS:The combined resul...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Fu H,Boffetta P

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Long working hours may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). The objective was to investigate cross-sectional associations of work hours with carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) and ankle-brachial index (ABI). METHODS:Participants were 1694 women and 1868 men from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Athe...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Charles LE,Fekedulegn D,Burchfiel CM,Fujishiro K,Landsbergis P,Diez Roux AV,Macdonald L,Foy CG,Andrew ME,Stukovsky KH,Baron S

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe workers with low back symptoms, to identify risk factors and to assess the occupational consequences separately in men and women. METHODS:A descriptive study was conducted between 1 October 1996 and 31 December 1996 in a sample of workers selected at random from all types of small companies in t...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Alcouffe J,Manillier P,Brehier M,Fabin C,Faupin F

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the concentrations of blood lead (PbB) in pregnant women in the slums of Lucknow, north India. METHODS:Of the 203 designated municipal slums in Lucknow, 70 were randomly selected for study and a cohort of 500 pregnant women was enrolled. Each participant was interviewed with questions on possib...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Awasthi S,Awasthi R,Pande VK,Srivastav RC,Frumkin H

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To examine the effect of silica exposure, in the absence of silicosis, on the prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), which is epidemic among South African gold miners. METHODS:Cross-sectional study of 520 gold miners over 37 years of age. Length of service, and cumulative and average dust and quartz exposure...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： teWaternaude JM,Ehrlich RI,Churchyard GJ,Pemba L,Dekker K,Vermeis M,White NW,Thompson ML,Myers JE

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：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：OBJECTIVES:To classify clinical diseases of the subjects with abnormal indices of peripheral neuropathy identified in field studies of sheep farmers and dippers exposed to organophosphate pesticides. To explore what neuropsychological profiles, if any, may be associated with neurophysiological damage in these subjects....

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Jamal GA,Hansen S,Pilkington A,Buchanan D,Gillham RA,Abdel-Azis M,Julu PO,Al-Rawas SF,Hurley F,Ballantyne JP

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To examine the hypothesis that people with benign pleural disease or asbestosis have an increased risk of malignant mesothelioma beyond that attributable to their degree of asbestos exposure. METHODS:Former workers and residents of the crocidolite mining and milling town of Wittenoom are participating in a cancer...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Reid A,de Klerk N,Ambrosini G,Olsen N,Pang SC,Musk AW

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The number of nuclear medicine procedures has increased substantially over the past several decades, with uncertain health risks to the medical workers who perform them. We estimated risks of incidence and mortality from cancer and circulatory disease associated with performing procedures involving the use o...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Kitahara CM,Linet MS,Drozdovitch V,Alexander BH,Preston DL,Simon SL,Freedman DM,Brill AB,Miller JS,Little MP,Rajaraman P,Doody MM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Night shift work has been suggested as a possible risk factor for multiple sclerosis (MS). The objective of the present analysis was to prospectively evaluate the association of rotating night shift work history and MS risk in two female cohorts, the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) and NHSII. METHODS:A total of ...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Papantoniou K,Massa J,Devore E,Munger KL,Chitnis T,Ascherio A,Schernhammer ES

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Night shift work has been classified as a probable human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, based on experimental studies and limited evidence on human breast cancer risk. Evidence at other cancer sites is scarce. We evaluated the association between night shift work and stomach c...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Gyarmati G,Turner MC,Castaño-Vinyals G,Espinosa A,Papantoniou K,Alguacil J,Costas L,Pérez-Gómez B,Martin Sanchez V,Ardanaz E,Moreno V,Gómez-Acebo I,Fernández-Tardon G,Villanueva Ballester V,Capelo R,Chirlaque MD,Santibáñe

更新日期：2016-08-01 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:It was hypothesised that inflammation plays a dominant part in the respiratory effects of exposure to wood dust. The purpose of this study was to relate the nasal inflammatory responses of workers exposed to meranti wood dust to (a) levels of exposure, (b) respiratory symptoms and (c) respiratory function. ...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Borm PJ,Jetten M,Hidayat S,van de Burgh N,Leunissen P,Kant I,Houba R,Soeprapto H

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) is a highly lipophilic organochlorine compound of widespread environmental occurrence, that accumulates in the biological system. It affects the porphyrine metabolism, thyroid hormones, and the liver function in animals. Although HCB is one of the most common organochlorine compound i...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Sala M,Sunyer J,Herrero C,To-Figueras J,Grimalt J

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fetal growth restriction has been inconsistently associated with maternal exposure to elevated levels of traffic-related air pollution. OBJECTIVE:We investigated the relationship between an individualised measure of fetal growth and maternal exposure to a specific marker for traffic-related air pollution. ...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Pereira G,Cook AG,Haggar F,Bower C,Nassar N

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the prevalence of cigarette smoking cessation and examine the association between cessation and various factors among workers in a nationally representative sample of US adults. METHODS:Data were derived from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey. Prevalence rates were calculated for intere...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Yong LC,Luckhaupt SE,Li J,Calvert GM

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：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：AIMS:To investigate the use of a worker based methodology to assess the physical stresses of lifting tasks on effort expended, and to associate this loading with musculoskeletal outcomes (MO). METHODS:A cross sectional study was conducted on 217 male manual handling workers from the Hong Kong area. The effects of four...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Yeung S,Genaidy A,Deddens J,Shoaf C,Leung PC

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This paper describes findings from the study of chronic bronchitis (CB) incidence after occupational exposure to ionising radiation among workers employed at Russian Mayak Production Association (PA) during 1948 and 1982 and followed up until 2008 based on 'Mayak Worker Dosimetry System 2008'. METHODS:Analy...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Azizova TV,Zhuntova GV,Haylock R,Moseeva MB,Grigoryeva ES,Bannikova MV,Belyaeva ZD,Bragin EV

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00