Objectives There is a lack of knowledge about whether occupational exposures increase the risk of emphysema, especially in ...

Objectives Firefighters face a range of hazards, including strenuous tasks in high-temperature environments and exposure to ...

1 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands 2 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, ...

Institute of Occupational Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy Correspondence to Antonio Pietroiusti, Department of Biopathology-Occupational Medicine, Tor Vergata University ...

The “need for recovery scale” is suggested as an operationalisation for the measurement of (early symptoms of) fatigue at work. Definition of and background on the concept of need for recovery are ...

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Aims: To analyse the impact of overtime and extended working hours on the risk of occupational injuries and illnesses among a nationally representative sample of working adults from the United States.

Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Correspondence to David Richardson, Department of Epidemiology, ...

OBJECTIVES To measure the concentrations of particles less than 100 nm diameter and of oxides of nitrogen generated by cooking with gas and electricity, to comment on possible hazards to health in ...

Background: The nested case-control design can be a very efficient approach to an epidemiological investigation. In order to obtain unbiased estimates of relative risk, controls should be selected by ...

Background Benzene, toluene and xylene (BTX) are aromatic hydrocarbons with inconclusive evidence of lung carcinogenicity. The aim of this research was to assess the associations between occupational ...