OBJECTIVESTo explore how metabolic risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD)
differ between shift workers and day workers in a defined population. Shift work
has been associated with an increased risk of CVD. Risk factors and causal
pathways for this association are only partly known.METHODSA working population
of 27 485 people from the Västerbotten intervention program (VIP) has been
analysed... hiện toàn bộ
OBJECTIVESTo systematically evaluate the available evidence on occupational risk
factors of shoulder pain.METHODSRelevant reports were identified by a systematic
search of Medline, Embase, Psychlit, Cinahl, and Current Contents. The quality
of the methods of all selected publications was assessed by two independent
reviewers using a standardised checklist. Details were extracted on the study
popul... hiện toàn bộ
OBJECTIVESIn the past, evidence on the negative consequences of workplace
bullying has been limited to cross sectional studies of self reported bullying.
In this study, these consequences were examined prospectively by focusing on
sickness absence in hospital staff.METHODSThe Poisson regression analyses of
medically certified spells (⩾4 days) and self certified spells (1–3 days) of
sickness absenc... hiện toàn bộ
Mary Lou Thompson, Jonathan E. Myers, David Kriebel
OBJECTIVES: To review the appropriateness of the prevalence odds ratio (POR) and
the prevalence ratio (PR) as effect measures in the analysis of cross sectional
data and to evaluate different models for the multivariate estimation of the PR.
METHODS: A system of linear differential equations corresponding to a dynamic
model of a cohort with a chronic disease was developed. At any point in time, a
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OBJECTIVE--To investigate the risk factors for low back pain in hospital nurses,
with particular emphasis on the role of specific nursing activities. METHODS--A
cross sectional survey of 2405 nurses employed by a group of teaching hospitals
was carried out. Self administered questionnaires were used to collect
information about occupational activities, non-occupational risk factors for
back sympto... hiện toàn bộ
L Järup, Lennart Hellström, Tobias Alfvén, Margareta D Carlsson, Anders Grubb, Bodil Persson, Conny Pettersson, Gunnar Spång, Andrejs Schütz, Carl‐Gustaf Elinder
OBJECTIVESTo study the dose-response relation between cadmium dose and renal
tubular damage in a population of workers and people environmentally or
occupationally exposed to low concentrations of cadmium.METHODSEarly kidney
damage in 1021 people, occupationally or environmentally exposed to cadmium, was
assessed from cadmium in urine to estimate dose, and protein HC
(α1-microglobulin) in urine to... hiện toàn bộ
Ralph J. Delfino, Sean S. Brummel, Jun Wu, Hal S. Stern, Bart Ostro, Michael Lipsett, Arthur Winer, Donald Street, L Zhang, Thomas Tjoa, Daniel L. Gillen
Objective:There is limited information on the public health impact of wildfires.
The relationship of cardiorespiratory hospital admissions (n = 40 856) to
wildfire-related particulate matter (PM2.5) during catastrophic wildfires in
southern California in October 2003 was evaluated.Methods:Zip code level
PM2.5concentrations were estimated using spatial interpolations from measured
PM2.5, light exti... hiện toàn bộ