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Cardiovascular mortality among seafarers: a Danish nationwide cohort study
Objectives Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally and the second most frequent cause of death in ...
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease due to occupational exposure to silica dust: a review of epidemiological and pathological evidence
1 Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA 2 Health Effects Laboratory Division, National ...
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IARC-NCI workshop on an epidemiological toolkit to assess biases in human cancer studies for hazard identification: beyond the algorithm
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Course of low back pain among nurses: a longitudinal study across eight years
1 Institute of Hygiene and Applied Physiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Clausiusstr. 25, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland 2 Department of Rheumatology and Institute of Physical Medicine, ...
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Occupational exposure to dust: inflammation and ischaemic heart disease.
Department of Occupational Health, Swedish National Institute for Working Life, Solna, Sweden. OBJECTIVES: To review the possible association between occupational exposure to dust and ischaemic heart ...
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Supervisory behaviour as a predictor of return to work in employees absent from work due to mental health problems
Aims: To study supervisory behaviour as a predictive factor for return to work of employees absent due to mental health problems; and to explore the association between conditional factors and ...
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Effects of a home exercise programme on shoulder pain and functional status in construction workers
Program in Physical Therapy, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Correspondence to: A/Prof. P M Ludewig Program in Physical ...
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First trimester employment, working conditions and preterm birth: a prospective population-based cohort study
Objectives To explore the association between working conditions during first trimester and total preterm birth (PTB), and subtypes: spontaneous PTB and iatrogenic PTB, additionally to explore the ...
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Implementing the Stockholm Treaty on Persistent Organic Pollutants
Institut Municipal d'Investigació Médica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Correspondence to: Prof. Miquel Porta, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Médica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ...
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Air pollution and mortality benefits of the London Congestion Charge: spatial and socioeconomic inequalities
Objectives: To alleviate traffic congestion in Central London, the Mayor introduced the Congestion Charging Scheme (CCS) in February 2003. We modelled the impact of the CCS on levels of traffic ...
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Prevalence and pattern of occupational exposure to hand transmitted vibration in Great Britain: findings from a national survey
a MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Community Clinical Sciences, University of Southampton, UK, b Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, UK Dr Keith Palmer, MRC ...
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Effect of measurement error on epidemiological studies of environmental and occupational exposures.
Random error (misclassification) in exposure measurements usually biases a relative risk, regression coefficient, or other effect measure towards the null value (no ...