Objectives Firefighters face a range of hazards, including strenuous tasks in high-temperature environments and exposure to ...

Objectives There is a lack of knowledge about whether occupational exposures increase the risk of emphysema, especially in ...

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Background: The nested case-control design can be a very efficient approach to an epidemiological investigation. In order to obtain unbiased estimates of relative risk, controls should be selected by ...

2 Department of Psychiatry, Central Clinical School, Brain & Mind Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Dr Gwenllian Wynne-Jones, ...

1 National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Centre for Health and Society, Bilthoven, The Netherlands Correspondence to KI Proper, National Institute for Public Health and the ...

Introduction The epidemiological surveillance of mesothelioma incidence is a crucial key for investigating the occupational and environmental sources of asbestos exposure. The median age at diagnosis ...

There is consistent evidence of increased respiratory symptoms in occupational cleaners; however, uncertainty remains on type of respiratory health effects, underlying causal agents, mechanisms and ...

Correspondence to Professor Lygia T Budnik, Occupational Toxicology and Immunology Unit, Institute for Occupational and Maritime Medicine (ZfAM), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, ...

Academic Medical Center, Coronel Institute of Occupational Health, Research Center for Insurance Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dr Patricia Dekkers-Sánchez, Academic ...

Correspondence to: Dr M Borritz National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark, Lersoe Parkallé 105, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark; mb{at}ami.dk Aim: To investigate whether burnout predicts ...

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 ...