Objectives Work in chemical laboratories is associated with exposure to chemicals, of which some are known or suspected carcinogens. A cohort study of laboratory workers in Stockholm followed until ...

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Objectives To study exposure-response relations between cumulative organic dust exposure and incident chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among subjects employed in the Danish farming and ...

1 Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 2 Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National ...

Correspondence to Dr Jaana I Halonen, Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland; Jaana.Halonen{at}thl.fi Objectives Long commuting times are linked to poor ...

Correspondence to Dr Esther T Maas, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z3, Canada; esther.maas{at}ubc.ca Objective This study investigates if ...

James A Deddens, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mail Stop R15, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA; jad0{at}cdc.gov One can think of a sample of binomial data (0 ...

Objectives Chronic bronchitis (CB) is an important chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-related phenotype, with distinct clinical features and prognostic implications. Occupational exposures ...

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 ...

Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Section, University of Cagliari, Italy Correspondence to: Prof. P Cocco, Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Section, ...

Introduction Job-exposure matrices (JEMs) are being used to assign (quantitative levels of) exposure to individuals based on their job history. In human observational studies, a group-based approach ...

9 Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Nicole AH Janssen, National Institute for Public Health and the ...