Aim: To determine the possible influence of high physical load in the workplace on the physical fitness of employees. Methods: The subjects (494 men) were tested by means of Baecke’s questionnaire for ...

Correspondence to Dr Kristan J Aronson, Division of Cancer Care and Epidemiology, Cancer Research Institute, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6 , Canada; aronson{at}queensu.ca Objectives The ...

3 National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Utrecht, The Netherlands 5 Public Health and Primary Care Directorate, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK ...

Department of Neurology, University of Texas, Houston Medical School, USA. OBJECTIVES: To obtain more information about injuries of West End performers. METHODS: A retrospective survey of 269 ...

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, ...

Objective To assess the role of occupational noise exposure on pregnancy complications in urban Nordic populations. Results Occupational noise exceeding 80 dB, compared with less than 70 dB, was ...

OBJECTIVES To examine environmental exposure and incidence and mortality of cancer in the village of San Carlos surrounded by oil fields in the Amazon basin of Ecuador. METHODS Water samples of the ...

Correspondence to: Dr IJ Kant, Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands; IJ.Kant{at}epid.unimaas.nl In 1998, a large scale prospective cohort ...

2 Department of Social and Organisational Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands 3 Department of Work and Organisational Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Correspondence to: Drs I ...

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 ...

Introduction Five million US Veterans had possible exposure to open burn pits used for waste disposal through service in Iraq (2003–2011) and Afghanistan (2001–2014). Burn pits generate toxic ...