Aims: To determine the prevalence of proteinuira and enzymuria among a cohort of subjects exposed to hexachlorobutadiene (HCBD) in their homes and to determine whether there was a change in observed ...

3 Centre for Prevention and Health Services Research, Public Health and Health Services Division, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands 4 Institute for ...

Objectives We investigated the association between protracted low-dose ionising radiation and the risk of cancer in medical radiation workers, the largest group of workers with occupational radiation ...

Objectives Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and silicosis are associated with exposure to crystalline silica. We determined the exposure to respirable crystalline silica and estimated ...

2 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Department of Health and Human Services, Robert A Taft Laboratories, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 3 National Institute for Occupational Safety ...

Aims: (1) To describe the prevalence of fatigue among employees in different work schedules (day work, three-shift, five-shift, and irregular shift work); (2) to investigate whether different work ...

Correspondence to Professor Yong-Long Xiao, Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, 321 Zhongshan Rd. Nanjing 210008, China; ...

OBJECTIVES In a cross sectional study, work related health complaints and diseases of 58 compost workers and 53 biowaste collectors were investigated and compared with 40 control subjects. Levels of ...

Correspondence to Dr Luoping Zhang, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; luoping{at}berkeley.edu; Dr Martha S Sandy, Office of Environmental Health ...

Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden Correspondence to: Prof. L Hagmar Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University ...

1 Department of Occupational Medicine, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan, Italy 2 Chair of Occupational Medicine, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Sassari, Italy 3 ...