Department of Occupational Medicine, Herning Hospital, DK-7400 Herning, Denmark Correspondence to: Dr J P Haahr, Department of Occupational Medicine, Herning Hospital, DK-7400 Herning, Denmark; hecjph ...
Objectives Asbestos is an inflammatory agent, and there is evidence that inflammatory processes are involved in the development of cardiovascular disease. Whether asbestos is a risk factor for ...
a The Medical Centre, Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa, Queensland 4825, Australia, b School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia Dr A Michael Donoghue, Senior ...
Correspondence to: Dr M Lahtinen Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Uusimaa Regional Institute, Arinatie 3 a, FIN-00370 Helsinki, Finland; marjaana.lahtinenoccuphealth.fi Aims: To examine the ...
Correspondence to Professor Duncan McVicar, Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT9 5EE, UK; d.mcvicar{at}qub.ac.uk Objectives This paper assessed the impact of working in ...
OBJECTIVES To investigate the relation between different types of exposure to noise and a classic sign of noise induced hearing loss (NIHL), the audiometric notch. METHODS The study sample had ...
Frigihashi Clinic, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Jichi Medical School, 644–10 Higashi-Yokoyana, Frigihashi, Ibi, Gifu, SO1–0801, Japan Dr Masatoshi Matsumoto, Frigihashi Clinic, ...
Correspondence to Dr Andrew Fox-Lewis, Virology-Immunology Department, LabPlus, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland District Health Board, Auckland 1148, New Zealand; afoxlewis{at}gmail.com Objective To ...
1 Graduate student of Department of Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan 2 Department of Epidemiology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo ...
Correspondence to Professor Margaret M Quinn, Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, USA; margaret_quinn{at}uml.edu Objective Violence from care recipients ...
2 Center for Environmental Health Research, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands 3 Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University ...
Background: An increased rate of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) has been repeatedly observed among farmers, but identification of specific exposures that explain this observation has proven difficult.