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

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

Institute of Occupational Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy Correspondence to Antonio Pietroiusti, Department of Biopathology-Occupational Medicine, Tor Vergata University ...

The “need for recovery scale” is suggested as an operationalisation for the measurement of (early symptoms of) fatigue at work. Definition of and background on the concept of need for recovery are ...

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Aims: To analyse the impact of overtime and extended working hours on the risk of occupational injuries and illnesses among a nationally representative sample of working adults from the United States.

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 ...

OBJECTIVES To measure the concentrations of particles less than 100 nm diameter and of oxides of nitrogen generated by cooking with gas and electricity, to comment on possible hazards to health in ...

Background Benzene, toluene and xylene (BTX) are aromatic hydrocarbons with inconclusive evidence of lung carcinogenicity. The aim of this research was to assess the associations between occupational ...

OBJECTIVES To systematically evaluate the available evidence on occupational risk factors of shoulder pain. METHODS Relevant reports were identified by a systematic search of Medline, Embase, Psychlit ...

1 Department of Public Health Sciences, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA 2 Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas School of Public ...

Mathias Holm, Linus Schioler, Anna Dahlman-Hoglund, Håkan Tinnerberg, Martin Andersson, Annelie Behndig, Anders Blomberg, Kerstin Cederlund, Jonas Eriksson Ström ...