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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Jeremy Tang Hua, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO 80206, USA; huaj{at}njhealth.org Objectives To investigate ...

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 ...

Objective To document the demographic risk factors of workers reported to have silicosis in the UK. Methods All cases of silicosis reported to the Surveillance of Work-related and Occupational ...

1 Department of Public Health Sciences, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA 2 Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas School of Public ...

Academic Medical Center, Coronel Institute of Occupational Health, Research Center for Insurance Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dr Patricia Dekkers-Sánchez, Academic ...

Correspondence to Professor Lygia T Budnik, Occupational Toxicology and Immunology Unit, Institute for Occupational and Maritime Medicine (ZfAM), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, ...

Correspondence to Dr Robert J Reynolds, Mortality Research & Consulting, Inc, City of Industry CA 91748, USA; rreynolds{at}mortalityresearch.com Objective Studies of mortality among US astronauts are ...

Correspondence to Dr Inge Brosbøl Iversen, Department of Occupational Medicine, Danish Ramazzini Centre, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; iniver{at}rm.dk Background Respirable crystalline ...

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 ...