Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM)

End-stage renal disease in the World Trade Center Clinical Centers of Excellence General Responders

Objectives Hazardous environmental exposures, including those experienced by responders to the 11 September 2001 attacks on ...
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Maternal night shift patterns during pregnancy and offspring’s development at 4 years of age: the Japan Environment and Children’s Study

Objectives To investigate the association between night shift work during pregnancy and offspring developmental screening ...
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Determinants of mobile phone output power in a multinational study: implications for exposure assessment

Objectives: The output power of a mobile phone is directly related to its radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic field strength, and may theoretically vary substantially in different networks and phone ...
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Phthalates, perfluoroalkyl acids, metals and organochlorines and reproductive function: a multipollutant assessment in Greenlandic, Polish and Ukrainian men

Objectives Numerous environmental contaminants have been linked to adverse reproductive health outcomes. However, the complex correlation structure of exposures and multiple testing issues limit the ...
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Maternal night shift patterns during pregnancy and offspring’s development at 4 years of age: the Japan Environment and Children’s Study ...
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Work history and radioprotection practices in relation to cancer incidence and mortality in US radiologic technologists performing nuclear medicine procedures

Introduction Technologists working in nuclear medicine (NM) are exposed to higher radiation doses than most other occupationally exposed populations. The aim of this study was to estimate the risk of ...
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Occupational exposure to pesticides and other biocides and risk of thyroid cancer

Correspondence to Dr Yawei Zhang, Section of Surgical Outcomes and Epidemiology, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, Yale School of Public Health, Yale Cancer Center, 60 College Street, ...
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Promoting excellent work ability and preventing poor work ability: the same determinants? Results from the Swedish HAKuL study

Aim: Health has been described as a continuum between the two poles of excellent health and ill health. Research has so far focused on the negative pole, leaving knowledge about the positive pole ...
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The influence of occupational exposure to pesticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, diesel exhaust, metal dust, metal fumes, and mineral oil on prostate cancer: a ...

Correspondence to: Ms D Boers Maastricht University, Department of Epidemiology, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands; daisy.boersepid.unimaas.nl Aims: To investigate the relation between ...
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SURVEILLANCE IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

1 Head, Dept of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, Medical Faculty, National University of Singapore, 16 Medical Drive, Singapore 117597 2 Head, Division of Occupational Health, Kent ...
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Exposure to crystalline silica, silicosis, and lung disease other than cancer in diatomaceous earth industry workers: a quantitative risk assessment

1 US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C-15, ...
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Exposures and cancer incidence near oil fields in the Amazon basin of Ecuador

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 ...