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Occupation and hematopoietic and lymphoproliferative malignancies among women: a linked registry study.

Published in Journal of occupational medicine. : official publication of the Industrial Medical Association

Using a nationwide linked registry, we evaluated the incidence of several hematopoietic and lymphoproliferative (HLP) malignancies among Swedish women from 1961 to 1979 by industry and occupation. The risks of one or more types of HLP cancers (including the leukemias, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and mycosis fungoides) were significant...

Mortality patterns of US female construction workers by race, 1979-1990.

Published in Journal of occupational medicine. : official publication of the Industrial Medical Association

In 1990, the US construction industry employed 7.6 million workers, of whom 8% were women. Only one epidemiologic study for women employed in the construction industry was previously published. We analyzed usual occupation and industry codes on death certificates from 28 states between 1979 and 1990 to evaluate mortality patterns among both black a...

Women at work: agriculture and pesticides.

Published in Journal of occupational medicine. : official publication of the Industrial Medical Association

Numerous occupational studies of cancer risks related to agriculture, agricultural practices, and agricultural exposures have been conducted among male farmers and farmworkers. Relatively few studies of female farmers and farmworkers have been conducted. Excesses of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, soft tissue sarcoma, and cancer...

International Conference on Women's Health: Occupation and Cancer. Proceedings. Baltimore, Maryland, November 1993.

Published in Journal of occupational medicine. : official publication of the Industrial Medical Association

Occupational cancer mortality among women employed in the telephone industry.

Published in Journal of occupational medicine. : official publication of the Industrial Medical Association

We conducted a mortality odds ratio (MOR) analysis among women employed in the telephone industry, using death certificates from 24 reporting states for 1984 through 1989. Usual occupation and industry from the death certificates were coded using the 1980 Bureau of the Census occupational and industrial classification system. There were 2444 cancer...

Risk of multiple myeloma by occupation and industry among men and women: a 24-state death certificate study.

Published in Journal of occupational medicine. : official publication of the Industrial Medical Association

This cancer surveillance investigation uses death certificates from 24 states for the period 1984-1989 to identify multiple myeloma and occupation associations and to stimulate hypotheses. A case-control study of multiple myeloma was created from 3,159,417 certificates in which 12,148 male and female cases were frequency matched by age, race, and g...

Studying cancer among female workers: methods and preliminary results from a record-linkage system in Italy.

Published in Journal of occupational medicine. : official publication of the Industrial Medical Association

In the context of a national program for occupational health surveillance, we examined cancer mortality among women from two study populations. The Torino Longitudinal Study includes 159,039 women, resident in Torino, northern Italy, 18 to 64 years old and economically active at the 1981 census. The Italian Cross-sectional Study includes 2,038 deat...

Relationship between physical activity and risk factors for cardiovascular disease among law enforcement officers.

Published in Journal of occupational medicine. : official publication of the Industrial Medical Association

This investigation examined the associations between exercise habits, measures of physical fitness, and 10-year cardiovascular disease risk (CVD10, expressed as %) among 470 law enforcement officers of differing ages (range = 21 to 63 y). Only 32% of this group exercised regularly (> or = 3 days/week, > or = 20 min/session, > or = preceding 4 weeks...

Second-order selection bias.

Published in Journal of occupational medicine. : official publication of the Industrial Medical Association

Risk factors for injury during basic military training. Is there a social element to injury pathogenesis?

Published in Journal of occupational medicine. : official publication of the Industrial Medical Association

A retrospective case-control study into the risk factors for injury during basic military training was conducted at the Recruit Training Unit, Royal Australian Air Force Base Edinburgh, South Australia. Case subjects were recruits suffering a musculoskeletal injury during the course, severe enough to result in backcoursing (being delayed and joinin...