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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marine Renier, Juliette Hippert, Weiswald Louis-Bastien, Séverine Tual, Matthieu Meryet-Figuiere, Nicolas Vigneron, Elisabeth Marcotullio, Isabelle Baldi, Pierre Lebailly
BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer is rare with a poor prognosis and few established risk factors. Hormones and reproductive factors significantly impact its development, suggesting a potential link with endocrine disrupters. METHODS: In the AGRICAN cohort, 59 391 female farmers completed data on lifelong agricultural exposures and reproductive life. Cox models with attained age as timescale (HR and 95% CI) were used. The role of hormonal factors as potential confounders was considered along with specific time windows for exposure (childhood, puberty and menopause)...
January 10, 2024: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Christopher E Overton, Rachel Abbey, Tarrion Baird, Rachel Christie, Owen Daniel, Julie Day, Matthew Gittins, Owen Jones, Robert Paton, Maria Tang, Tom Ward, Jack Wilkinson, Camilla Woodrow-Hill, Timothy Aldridge, Yiqun Chen
OBJECTIVES: To identify risk factors that contribute to outbreaks of COVID-19 in the workplace and quantify their effect on outbreak risk. METHODS: We identified outbreaks of COVID-19 cases in the workplace and investigated the characteristics of the individuals, the workplaces, the areas they work and the mode of commute to work, through data linkages based on Middle Layer Super Output Areas in England between 20 June 2021 and 20 February 2022. We estimated population-level associations between potential risk factors and workplace outbreaks, adjusting for plausible confounders identified using a directed acyclic graph...
January 8, 2024: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alex Collie
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January 8, 2024: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Candice Y Johnson, Barbara Grajewski, Christina C Lawson, Leslie A MacDonald, Carissa M Rocheleau, Elizabeth A Whelan
OBJECTIVES: Flight attendants perform physically demanding work such as lifting baggage, pushing service carts and spending the workday on their feet. We examined if more frequent exposure to occupational physical demands could explain why previous studies have found that flight attendants have a higher reported prevalence of menstrual cycle irregularities than other workers. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 694 flight attendants and 120 teachers aged 18-44 years from three US cities...
January 6, 2024: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Karen Messing
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January 6, 2024: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jessica Gerlich, Johan Ohlander, Hans Kromhout, Roel Vermeulen, Sandra Söhler, Katja Radon, Dennis Nowak, Stefan Karrasch, Nina Adaskina, Claus Vogelmeier, Uta Ochmann, Rudolf A Jörres
OBJECTIVES: The impact of occupational exposures on lung function impairments and quality of life (QoL) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was analysed and compared with that of smoking. METHODS: Data from 1283 men and 759 women (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) grades 1-4 or former grade 0, without alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency) of the COPD and Systemic Consequences Comorbidities Network cohort were analysed...
December 30, 2023: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ronnie Babigumira, Marit B Veierød, H Dean Hosgood, Sven Ove Samuelsen, Magne Bråtveit, Jorunn Kirkeleit, Nathaniel Rothman, Qing Lan, Debra T Silverman, Melissa C Friesen, Nita Kaupang Shala, Tom K Grimsrud, Jo Steinson Stenehjem
OBJECTIVE: The objective of our study was to examine whether occupational exposure to benzene is associated with lung cancer among males in the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Workers cohort. METHODS: Among 25 347 male offshore workers employed during 1965-1998, we conducted a case-cohort study with 399 lung cancer cases diagnosed between 1999 and 2021, and 2035 non-cases sampled randomly by 5-year birth cohorts. Individual work histories were coupled to study-specific job-exposure matrices for benzene and other known lung carcinogens...
December 28, 2023: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarah Rhodes, Evangelia Demou, Jack Wilkinson, Mark Cherrie, Rhiannon Edge, Matthew Gittins, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Theocharis Kromydas, William Mueller, Neil Pearce, Martie van Tongeren
OBJECTIVES: To assess variation in vaccination uptake across occupational groups as a potential explanation for variation in risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. DESIGN: We analysed data from the UK Office of National Statistics COVID-19 Infection Survey linked to vaccination data from the National Immunisation Management System in England from 1 December 2020 to 11 May 2022. We analysed vaccination uptake and SARS-CoV-2 infection risk by occupational group and assessed whether adjustment for vaccination reduced the variation in risk between occupational groups...
December 12, 2023: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Asmare Y Gelaw, Luke Sheehan, Shannon Elise Gray, Alex Collie
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the disability duration and burden of compensated time loss in the health and social care (HSC) sector following psychological injury. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was conducted using data from the New South Wales workers' compensation system. The median weeks disability duration and total weeks of working time lost (WWL) per 1000 workers were compared between the HSC sector and all other industries, and between specific occupational groups in the HSC sector, using accelerated failure time models...
December 9, 2023: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Evelien Nys, Sara Pauwels, Balázs Ádám, João Amaro, Athanasios Athanasiou, Osnat Bashkin, Tatjana Kofol Bric, Petar Bulat, Cigdem Caglayan, Irina Guseva Canu, Serghei Cebanu, Barbara Charbotel, Jolanta Cirule, Stefania Curti, Nadav Davidovitch, Keren Dopelt, Metoda Dodic Fikfak, Heikki Frilander, Per Gustavsson, Anje Christina Höper, Sibel Kiran, Manolis Kogevinas, Ferenc Kudász, Henrik A Kolstad, Sanja Brekalo Lazarevic, Jelena Macan, Nicole Majery, Alessandro Marinaccio, Dana Mates, Stefano Mattioli, Damien Martin McElvenny, Zakia Mediouni, Ingrid Sivesind Mehlum, Eda Merisalu, Dragan Mijakoski, Evangelia Nena, Peter Noone, Marina Ruxandra Otelea, Daniela Pelclova, Nurka Pranjic, Mark Rosso, Consol Serra, Lesley Rushton, Abdulsamet Sandal, Eva S Schernhammer, Sasho Stoleski, Michelle C Turner, Henk F van der Molen, Marek Varga, Jolanta Walusiak-Skorupa, Kurt Straif, Lode Godderis
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to present an overview of the formal recognition of COVID-19 as occupational disease (OD) or injury (OI) across Europe. METHODS: A COVID-19 questionnaire was designed by a task group within COST-funded OMEGA-NET and sent to occupational health experts of 37 countries in WHO European region, with a last update in April 2022. RESULTS: The questionnaire was filled out by experts from 35 countries. There are large differences between national systems regarding the recognition of OD and OI: 40% of countries have a list system, 57% a mixed system and one country an open system...
November 23, 2023: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Thomas C Erren, Peter Morfeld
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November 22, 2023: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Per Gustavsson, Carolina Bigert, Tomas Andersson, Manzur Kader, Mikko Härmä, Jenny Selander, Theo Bodin, Maria Albin
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November 22, 2023: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Xue Liang, Zixin Wang, Honglin Cai, Yi Qian Zeng, Jinjian Chen, Xianglin Wei, Guanghui Dong, Yu Huang, Xiang Qian Lao
BACKGROUND: More than 83% of the world's population lives under light-polluted skies while information about health effects of outdoor light at night (LAN) is limited. We examined the association of LAN with natural cause (NC) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality using the UK Biobank. METHODS: We included 273 335 participants recruited between 2006 and 2010. Level of LAN was estimated at each participant's address using time-varying satellite data for a composite of persistent night-time illumination at ~1 km2 scale...
November 22, 2023: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Eric Garshick, Carrie A Redlich, Anna Korpak, Andrew K Timmons, Nicholas L Smith, Karen Nakayama, Coleen P Baird, Paul Ciminera, Farrah Kheradmand, Vincent S Fan, Jaime E Hart, Petros Koutrakis, Ware Kuschner, Octavian Ioachimescu, Michael Jerrett, Phillipe R Montgrain, Susan P Proctor, Emily S Wan, Christine H Wendt, Cherry Wongtrakool, Paul D Blanc
OBJECTIVES: Characterise inhalational exposures during deployment to Afghanistan and Southwest Asia and associations with postdeployment respiratory symptoms. METHODS: Participants (n=1960) in this cross-sectional study of US Veterans (Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study 'Service and Health Among Deployed Veterans') completed an interviewer-administered questionnaire regarding 32 deployment exposures, grouped a priori into six categories: burn pit smoke; other combustion sources; engine exhaust; mechanical and desert dusts; toxicants; and military job-related vapours gas, dusts or fumes (VGDF)...
November 15, 2023: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Esmée Rianne Janssen, Mirjam Nielen, Jacobus Jochem Gerardus Spithoven, Tine van Werven, Inge Maria Wouters
OBJECTIVES: To provide insights into exposure of Dutch dairy farmers to formaldehyde derived from formalin footbaths used for cows. Dutch safety norms are set at a limit of 0.122 ppm during an 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA) and 0.407 ppm for a 15-min TWA. METHODS: At 20 farms formaldehyde air concentrations were determined using stationary active air sampling with impingers next to the footbath and in the milking parlour during footbath usage. Formalin footbath concentrations were tested and meteorological conditions were collected using a climate monitor to assess associations with formaldehyde concentrations...
November 9, 2023: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Amelia T Martin, Elizabeth S McClure, Shabbar I Ranapurwala, Maryalice Nocera, John Cantrell, Stephen W Marshall, David B Richardson
OBJECTIVES: After declining for several decades, fatal occupational injury rates have stagnated in the USA since 2009. To revive advancements in workplace safety, interventions targeting at-risk worker groups must be implemented. Our study aims to identify these at-risk populations by evaluating disparities in unintentional occupational fatalities occurring in North Carolina (NC) from 1992 to 2017. METHODS: Our retrospective cohort study drew on both the NC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner system and the NC death certificate data system to identify unintentional fatal occupational injuries occurring from 1992 to 2017...
November 8, 2023: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Helen Louise Kelsall, Michael F Di Donato, Sarah McGuinness, Alex Collie, Shannon Zhong, Owen Eades, Malcolm Ross Sim, Karin Leder
OBJECTIVE: To identify and characterise COVID-19 workers' compensation claims in healthcare and other industries during the pandemic in Victoria, Australia. METHODS: We used workers' compensation claims identified as COVID-19 infection related from 1 January 2020 to 31 July 2022 to compare COVID-19 infection claims and rates of claims by industry and occupation, and in relation to Victorian COVID-19 epidemiology. A Cox proportional hazards model assessed risk factors for extended claim duration...
November 6, 2023: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dallas S Shi, Jessica L Rinsky, George R Grimes, Sophia K Chiu
OBJECTIVES: To describe recent investigations of potential workplace cancer clusters. METHODS: We identified Health Hazard Evaluations (HHEs) of cancer concerns during 2001-2020. We described information about industry, requestors, cancer characteristics, investigative procedures, and determinations about the presence of a cluster (ie, presence of excess cases, unusual case distribution or exposure). RESULTS: Of 5754 HHEs, 174 included cancer concerns, comprising 1%-5% of HHEs per year...
November 6, 2023: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Yeqing Gu, Jinhan Wang, Yan Wang, Chang Xu, Yang Liu, Liqing Du, Qin Wang, Kaihua Ji, Ningning He, Manman Zhang, Huijuan Song, Kaijun Niu, Qiang Liu
BACKGROUND: The dose-response relationship between cancers and protracted low-dose rate exposure to ionising radiation is still uncertain. This study aims to estimate quantified relationships between low-dose radiation exposures and site-specific solid cancers among Chinese medical X-ray workers. METHODS: This cohort study included 27 011 individuals who were employed at major hospitals in 24 provinces in China from 1950 to 1980 and had been exposed to X-ray equipment, and a control group of 25 782 physicians who were not exposed to X-ray equipment...
November 2, 2023: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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November 2023: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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