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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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The prevalence of occupational dermatitis in the UK printing industry
1 MacMillan Information Project Manager, North London Cancer Network, Grays Inn Division, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG, UK 2 Institute for Environment and Health, University of ...
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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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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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Does radon cause diseases other than lung cancer? Findings on mortality within the German uranium miners cohort study, 1946–2018 ...
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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 ...
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Work environment and neck and shoulder pain: the influence of exposure time. Results from a population based case-control study
4 Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 5 Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden ...
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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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Gender differences in the occurrence of farm related injuries
Aims: To use national surveillance data in Canada to describe gender differences in the pattern of farm fatalities and severe injuries (those requiring hospitalisation). Methods: Data from the ...
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Poisson regression analysis of ungrouped data
Background: Poisson regression is routinely used for analysis of epidemiological data from studies of large occupational cohorts. It is typically implemented as a grouped method of data analysis in ...
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Dose–response relationship between hand–arm vibration exposure and vibrotactile thresholds among roadworkers
Correspondence to Dr Thomas Clemm, Department of Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Statens arbeidsmiljoinstitutt, Oslo, Norway; thomas.clemm{at}outlook.com Background Testing of vibration ...