Toxic health effects including reversible macrothrombocytosis in workers exposed to asphalt fumes.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate indoor polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) concentrations in bars and restaurants and identify the main determinants of airborne PAH concentrations. METHODS:This study included 57 bars/restaurants in Santiago, Chile. PAH concentrations (ng/m(3) ) were measured using photoelectric aerosol sensor...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Muñoz C,Droppelmann A,Erazo M,Aceituno P,Orellana C,Parro J,Mesias S,Marchetti N,Navas-Acien A,Iglesias V

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Death certificates contain a box labeled "Injury at Work" which is to be marked "Yes" for all fatal occupational injuries. The accuracy of this box in Michigan is not fully characterized. METHODS:The accuracy of the Injury at Work box on the Michigan death certificate was compared to deaths identified from ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Oliveri AN,Wang L,Rosenman KD

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In studies in men, risk estimates on occupation and bladder cancer are distorted by about 10% when not adjusting for smoking. We examined the degree to which occupational risk estimates for bladder cancer in women are confounded by smoking, and the degree of residual confounding by inadequate control of this...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： 't Mannetje A,Kogevinas M,Chang-Claude J,Cordier S,González CA,Hours M,Jöckel KH,Bolm-Audorff U,Lynge E,Porru S,Donato F,Ranft U,Serra C,Tzonou A,Vineis P,Wahrendorf J,Boffetta P

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Construction industry workers are exposed to many hazards leading to fatal and nonfatal injuries. Information for nonfatal work-related injury surveillance may be vague and come from a variety of sources. METHODS:The Alaska Trauma Registry (ATR) is used as an injury surveillance tool to focus on hospitalize...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Husberg BJ,Fosbroke DE,Conway GA,Mode NA

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the various overlapping approaches used to define outcome in ergonomic-epidemiologic studies of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, the most widely used are clinical diagnostic entities, whose criteria derive either from clinical examination (consisting of clinical tests in conjunction with symptoms and clinica...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Schierhout GH,Myers JE

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive K-X-ray fluorescence (K-XRF) instrument was used to measure lead levels in the tibia and patella on a series of twelve subjects who had relatively well-documented histories of lead exposure and blood lead levels. For some subjects, K-XRF measurements were taken at multiple points in time, and before and af...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Hu H,Pepper L,Goldman R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This commentary challenges a recently published perception that Dr. Le Roy Upson Gardner had not actually discovered in 1942 that inhaled chrysotile fibers could induce malignant neoplasia in mice. The handwritten laboratory notes and some of Dr. Gardner's slides have recently been found. They verify that the tumors h...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Schepers GW

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Occupational eye injuries have been recognized as a serious health risk to workers and are in need of further investigation to develop effective interventions. METHODS:Rhode Island workers' compensation claims of ocular injury between 1998 through 2002 (n=8,877) were examined. The Current Population Survey ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： McCall BP,Horwitz IB

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the nature of respiratory functional impairment caused by asbestos-induced visceral pleural fibrosis (VPF) and to discover which pulmonary physiological variable best reveals it, we examined 59 asbestos-exposed construction workers having asbestos-related changes on chest radiographs. Computed tomography ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Valkila EH,Nieminen MM,Moilanen AK,Kuusisto PA,Lahdensuo AH,Karvonen JI

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deaths due to occupational disease and injury place a heavy burden on society in terms of economic costs and human suffering. METHODS:We estimate the annual deaths due to selected diseases for which an occupational association is reasonably well established and quantifiable, by calculation of attributable f...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Steenland K,Burnett C,Lalich N,Ward E,Hurrell J

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A medical screening program began in 1986 for sheet metal workers exposed to asbestos, primarily while working alongside insulators applying spray-on asbestos materials, a practice banned in 1973. Exposure continues during maintenance, renovation, and repair. METHODS:Radiographic abnormalities among 26 397 ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： West GH,Sokas RK,Welch LS

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substances referred to as formaldehyde releasers were identified on review of the literature. Information on product categories and typical concentrations for chemical products containing formaldehyde and formaldehyde releasers was obtained from the Danish Product Register Data Base (PROBAS). As of February 1992, 62,0...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Flyvholm MA,Andersen P

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article the material collected for a case-control study is analyzed in order to evaluate the existence of relationships between organic solvent exposure and the entitlement to disability benefits due to neuropsychiatric disorders. Questionnaires were used to collect information on 252 cases receiving compensat...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： van Vliet C,Swaen GM,Volovics A,Slangen JJ,Meijers JM,de Boorder T,Sturmans F

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Despite being preventable, work-related upper extremity cumulative trauma disorders (UECTDs) remain problematic. This study is unique in its focus on predictors of employer risk-reduction activities (ERRAs) in response to a UECTD case. METHODS:Workers' compensation claimants (N = 537) completed a telephone ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Keogh JP,Gucer PW,Gordon JL,Nuwayhid I

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Use of surrogate responders often needs to be considered in case-control studies with a high case fatality. METHODS:Agreement between 98 colon cancer patients and their closest relative was expressed as a percentage of the exact agreement and by Kappa coefficients and intra-class correlation coefficients. ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Kaerlev L,Lynge E,Sabroe S,Olsen J

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formaldehyde is commonly accepted to be an allergen and irritant. However, specifically diagnosed occupational respiratory diseases caused by formaldehyde are relatively rare. Occupational laryngitis was diagnosed in a 47-year-old dairy foreman. He had been exposed for 9 years to formaldehyde emitted from a milk-packi...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Roto P,Sala E

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Silicosis is a fibrotic lung disease resulting from the inhalation of crystalline silica and can be classified as simple or complicated according to the International Labour Organization criteria. Furthermore, individuals exposed to crystalline silica also have a higher risk for the development of tubercul...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Salum KCR,de Castro MCS,Moreira VB,Nani ASF,Kohlrausch FB

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highway maintenance workers (HMWs) have been exposed to a broad range of potentially toxic substances, including diesel fuels and exhaust, asphalts and tars, herbicides, gasoline, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, and lead. The number of current and former state, county, and municipal HMWs in the United Stat...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Bender AP,Parker DL,Johnson RA,Scharber WK,Williams AN,Marbury MC,Mandel JS

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sensitivity to beryllium was investigated among workers at an aluminum smelter in Norway as a consequence of the findings in an occupational exposure survey. METHODS:Three hundred and sixty-two employees and 31 reference persons were tested for sensitization to beryllium with the beryllium lymphocyte prolif...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Nilsen AM,Vik R,Behrens C,Drabløs PA,Espevik T

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Workers in the Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (AgFF) sector experience exposures directly related to the work itself, as well as the physical environment in which the work occurs. Health outcomes vary from immediate to delayed, and from acute to chronic. METHODS:We reviewed existing literature on the ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Quandt SA,Kucera KL,Haynes C,Klein BG,Langley R,Agnew M,Levin JL,Howard T,Nussbaum MA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to the aging population and a shift to patient home care, home health aides (HHAs) are a fast-growing occupation. Since little is known about workplace risk factors for back injuries among HHAs, we examined the role of ergonomic and psychosocial factors in injury reporting among HHAs. METHODS:We used th...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Arlinghaus A,Caban-Martinez AJ,Marino M,Reme SE

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) assay may underestimate endotoxins because only soluble endotoxins are determined. The solubility of endotoxins was, therefore, studied in two species of Gram-negative bacteria. METHODS:Cultures were grown in serum broth, cells were harvested by centrifugation and washed i...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Eduard W,Westby MH,Larsson L

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to estimate rates and identify risk factors for assaults on employees of a state psychiatric hospital, we examined workers' compensation claims, hospital-recorded incident reports, and data collected in a survey of ward staff. Results revealed 13.8 workers' compensation claims due to assault per 100 employees...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Bensley L,Nelson N,Kaufman J,Silverstein B,Kalat J,Shields JW

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Job-exposure matrices (JEM) are used for exposure assessment in occupational studies, but they can involve errors. We assessed agreement between the Nordic Occupational Cancer Studies JEM (NOCCA-JEM) and aggregate and individual dose estimates for cosmic radiation exposure among Finnish airline personnel. M...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Talibov M,Salmelin R,Lehtinen-Jacks S,Auvinen A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A five-year total community study of lung cancer incidence by occupation revealed that 1) virtually all the cases occurred in smokers; 2) all major histologic types of lung cancer were strongly associated with smoking behavior; 3) in most high-risk occupations the significant elevations of risk were limited to one or ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Morton WE,Treyve EL

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Although lung cancer risks can vary by race/ethnicity and by construction occupation, these risks have not been examined extensively. METHODS:This study analyzed 110,937 lung cancer cases identified from the California Cancer Registry between 1988 and 2007. Mean age at diagnosis, proportion diagnosed at an ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Calvert GM,Luckhaupt S,Lee SJ,Cress R,Schumacher P,Shen R,Tak S,Deapen D

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：METHODS:We used a population-based sample of 403 Parkinson's disease cases and 405 controls to examine risks by occupation. Results were compared to a previous clinic-based analysis. RESULTS:With censoring of jobs held within 10 years of diagnosis, the following had significantly or strongly increased risks: social sc...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Teschke K,Marion SA,Tsui JK,Shen H,Rugbjerg K,Harris MA

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Persistent and growing occupation-based disparities related to tobacco pose a serious public health challenge. Tobacco exacts a disproportionate toll on individuals employed in working class occupations, due to higher prevalence of smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke among these workers compared to othe...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Barbeau EM,McLellan D,Levenstein C,DeLaurier GF,Kelder G,Sorensen G

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00