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.METHODS...... 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 pub...... 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.METHODSTh...... 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 ...... hiện toàn bộ
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 bac...... 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 environme...... 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:... hiện toàn bộ