Objectives The study investigated the association between occupational biomechanical risk factors and the occurrence of thumb carpometacarpal joint osteoarthritis (CMC1 OA) in construction workers.

3 Department of Chemical and Biological Working Environment, National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway 4 Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, National Institute of Occupational Health ...

Objective Economic policies can have unintended consequences on population health. In recent years, many states in the USA have passed ‘right to work’ (RTW) laws which weaken labour unions. The effect ...

OBJECTIVES To examine whether underground construction workers exposed to tunnelling pollutants over a follow up period of 8 years have an increased risk of decline in lung function and respiratory ...

Random error (misclassification) in exposure measurements usually biases a relative risk, regression coefficient, or other effect measure towards the null value (no ...

OBJECTIVES To examine environmental exposure and incidence and mortality of cancer in the village of San Carlos surrounded by oil fields in the Amazon basin of Ecuador. METHODS Water samples of the ...

1 Health, Safety and Environment Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK 2 Department of Epidemiology, Statistics and Public Health, University of Wales College ...

Correspondence to Professor Roel Vermeulen, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University; P.O. Box 80.178, 3584 TD, Utrecht, The Netherlands; ...

Correspondence to Dr Thomas Clemm, Department of Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Statens arbeidsmiljoinstitutt, Oslo, Norway; thomas.clemm{at}outlook.com Background Testing of vibration ...

Correspondence to: Dr M L Burr Department of Epidemiology, Statistics & Public Health, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK; burrmlcf.ac.uk Aims: To determine ...

Department of Psychology and Health, Tilburg University, and Research Institute for Psychology and Health, Netherlands Correspondence to: Dr J De Vries, Tilburg University, Department of Psychology ...