Kromydas, Theocharis Demou, Evangelia Edge, Rhiannon Gittins, Matthew Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal Pearce, Neil van Tongeren, Martie Wilkinson, Jack Rhodes, Sarah
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Objectives To establish whether prevalence and severity of long-COVID symptoms vary by industry and occupation. Methods We used Office for National Statistics COVID-19 Infection Survey (CIS) data (February 2021–April 2022) of working-age participants (16–65 years). Exposures were industry, occupation and major Standard Occupational Classification (...
Goodrich, Jaclyn M Jung, Alesia M Furlong, Melissa A Beitel, Shawn Littau, Sally Gulotta, John Wallentine, Darin Burgess, Jefferey L
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Occupational and environmental medicine
Firefighters face exposures associated with adverse health outcomes including risk for multiple cancers. DNA methylation, one type of epigenetic regulation, provides a potential mechanism linking occupational hazards to adverse health outcomes. We hypothesised that DNA methylation profiles would change in firefighters after starting their service a...
Clin, Bénédicte Gramond, Celine Thaon, Isabelle Brochard, Patrick Delva, Fleur Chammings, Soizick Gislard, Antoine Laurent, François Paris, Christophe Lacourt, Aude
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Occupational and environmental medicine
The aim of this study was to analyse, within a French cohort of workers previously occupationally exposed to asbestos, incidence and mortality from various sites of head and neck cancers (larynx excluded) and to examine the potential link of these cancers with pleural plaques. A 10-year follow-up study was conducted in the 13 481 male subjects incl...
Fadel, Marc Gilbert, Fabien Legeay, Clément Dubée, Vincent Esquirol, Yolande Verdun-Esquer, Catherine Dinh, Aurelien Sembajwe, Grace Goldberg, Marcel Roquelaure, Yves
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light a new occupational health threat. We aimed to evaluate the association between COVID-19 infection and work exposure to SARS-CoV-2 assessed by a job-exposure matrix (JEM), in a large population cohort. We also estimated the population-attributable fraction among exposed subjects. Methods We used ...
Blindow, Katrina Julia Paulin, Johan Hanson, Linda Magnusson Johnell, Kristina Nyberg, Anna
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Occupational and environmental medicine
To estimate the prospective association between the exposure to three types of gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) and psychotropic medication. Information on three measures of workplace GBVH-sexual harassment (1) from superiors or colleagues, (2) from others (eg, clients) and (3) gender harassment from superiors or colleagues-were retrieve...
Dobson, Kathleen G Mustard, Cameron Carnide, Nancy Furlan, Andrea Smith, Peter M
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Objectives While most individuals physically injured at work will make a complete medical recovery, a portion of workers will experience persistent pain following their injury. This study estimated persistent pain prevalence and its association with health and return-to-work outcomes 18 months following the incidence of a disabling work-related inj...
Clemm, Thomas Lunde, Lars-Kristian Ulvestad, Bente Færden, Karl Nordby, Karl-Christian
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Objectives The risk of developing hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) from occupational hand-arm vibration (HAV) exposure is traditionally determined by the onset of vascular symptoms (white fingers). However, changes in tactile sensibility at the fingertips is a clinical sign of HAVS which in most cases precedes vascular signs. We aimed to assess r...
Almroth, Melody Hemmingsson, Tomas Kjellberg, Katarina Sörberg Wallin, Alma Andersson, Tomas van der Westhuizen, Amanda Falkstedt, Daniel
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Objective To investigate the association between job control, job demands and their combination (job strain) and suicide attempts and deaths among male and female workers in Sweden. Methods Job control and demands were measured separately for men and women using a job exposure matrix, which was linked to around three million individuals based on th...
Nafilyan, Vahe Pawelek, Piotr Ayoubkhani, Daniel Rhodes, Sarah Pembrey, Lucy Matz, Melissa Coleman, Michel Allemani, Claudia Windsor-Shellard, Ben van Tongeren, Martie
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Occupational and environmental medicine
To estimate occupational differences in COVID-19 mortality and test whether these are confounded by factors such as regional differences, ethnicity and education or due to non-workplace factors, such as deprivation or prepandemic health. Using a cohort study of over 14 million people aged 40-64 years living in England, we analysed occupational diff...
Alhanti, Brooke van Wendel de Joode, Berna Soto Martinez, Manuel Mora, Ana M Córdoba Gamboa, Leonel Reich, Brian Lindh, Christian H Quirós Lépiz, Marcela Hoppin, Jane A
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Occupational and environmental medicine
This research evaluates whether environmental exposures (pesticides and smoke) influence respiratory and allergic outcomes in women living in a tropical, agricultural environment. We used data from 266 mothers from the Infants' Environmental Health cohort study in Costa Rica. We evaluated environmental exposures in women by measuring seven pesticid...
