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 ...

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, ...

Correspondence to Linda F Cantley, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, Yale University School of Medicine, 367 Cedar St, ESHA 2nd Fl. Room 218B, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; linda.cantley{at ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Tyler D. Quinn, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; yhh7{at}cdc.gov Background ...

4 University College London Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, London, UK Background SARS-CoV-2 infection rates vary by occupation, but the association with work-related characteristics (such ...

Aims: To study the lasting health impact of occupational dust exposure on life expectancy and specific causes of death. Methods: Male Viennese workers, selected at age ⩾40 (mean 54) years during ...