Background Combustion-generated fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) is associated with cardiovascular morbidity. Both traffic-related air pollution and residential wood combustion may be important, but ...

Work-related stress complaints are a growing societal problem. Occupational health professionals often play a key role in its prevention. However, studies providing an overview of preventive ...

Methods Data were analysed for 7889 singleton, live-born infants without major birth defects or chromosomal disorders and their mothers from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study from 1997 to ...

Parental occupational exposure to pesticides at birth and risk of adult testicular germ cell tumours in offspring: a French nationwide case-control study ...

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 describe mortality among workers exposed to chrysotile asbestos and evaluate the relationship between lung cancer and asbestos fibre exposure. Methods: Workers employed for at least 1 ...

Immigrant workers play a significant role in the U.S. construction industry. This report summarises our recent findings about disparities in demographics, employment characteristics, health and ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, Brown Public Health Program, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA 2 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College ...

This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to examine whether working beyond the standard working hours was associated with a greater risk of depressive disorder among workers included in ...

5 Ohara Memorial Institute for Science of Labor, Tokyo, Japan Correspondence to Professor Ginji Endo, Ohara Memorial Institute for Science of Labor, in Oberlin University, 1-1-12, Sendagaya, Sibuya-ku ...

Objectives We investigated associations between maternal occupations and a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in offspring. Methods We obtained data for 1702 ASD cases born between 1973 and ...

1 Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia 2 National Institute ...