1 Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA 2 Health Effects Laboratory Division, National ...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the evidence for an association between hip osteoarthritis (OA) and physical work demands. Systematic searches were made and epidemiological studies on hip OA and ...

Department of Occupational Health, Swedish National Institute for Working Life, Solna, Sweden. OBJECTIVES: To review the possible association between occupational exposure to dust and ischaemic heart ...

Program in Physical Therapy, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Correspondence to: A/Prof. P M Ludewig Program in Physical ...

a MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Community Clinical Sciences, University of Southampton, UK, b Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, UK Dr Keith Palmer, MRC ...

Correspondence to Professor Stefano Landi, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via Derna, 1, 56126 Pisa, Italy; slandi{at}biologia.unipi.it ↵1 Respiratory Research Division, Department of ...

Correspondence to Professor David Coggon, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK; dnc{at}mrc.soton.ac.uk Objectives To provide further information on ...

Aims: To study supervisory behaviour as a predictive factor for return to work of employees absent due to mental health problems; and to explore the association between conditional factors and ...

OBJECTIVES Particulate air pollution has been shown to cause adverse health effects, and the ultrafine particle component has been implicated. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether ...

Aims: To use national surveillance data in Canada to describe gender differences in the pattern of farm fatalities and severe injuries (those requiring hospitalisation). Methods: Data from the ...

Objectives ‘Dusty occupations’ and exposure to low-dose radiation have been suggested as potential risk factors for stomach cancer. Data from the German uranium miner cohort study are used to further ...

4 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Objective The long-term effects of protracted low level ionising ...