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 ...

6 Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Correspondence to Simon Grandjean Bamberger, Department of Occupational Medicine, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University ...

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The recognition of occupational carcinogens is important for primary prevention, compensation and surveillance of exposed workers, as well as identifying causes of cancer in the general population.

Objectives: To alleviate traffic congestion in Central London, the Mayor introduced the Congestion Charging Scheme (CCS) in February 2003. We modelled the impact of the CCS on levels of traffic ...

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 ...

Mathias Holm, Linus Schioler, Anna Dahlman-Hoglund, Håkan Tinnerberg, Martin Andersson, Annelie Behndig, Anders Blomberg, Kerstin Cederlund, Jonas Eriksson Ström ...

Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr S Hajat Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of ...

OBJECTIVES To describe the relation between oesophageal cancer and many occupational circumstances with data from a population based case-control study. METHODS Cases were 99 histologically confirmed ...

2 The Department of Chest Medicine, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur, Montréal, Canada Correspondence to: Dr D Gautrin, Department of Chest Medicine, Sacré-Coeur Hospital, 5400 Gouin Blvd West, Montréal, Canada ...

Correspondence to Dr Tom Sterud, National Institute of Occupational Health, PO Box 8149 Dep, Oslo N-0033, Norway; tom.sterud{at}stami.no Aims This study examines the impact of work-related ...