OBJECTIVES To compare the relative effects on performance of sleep deprivation and alcohol. METHODS Performance effects were studied in the same subjects over a period of 28 hours of sleep deprivation ...

Objective To evaluate the associations between the evolution of household use of cleaning products with the asthma symptom score and its evolution over 8 years. Methods Our study is based on 509 women ...

Department of Occupational Health, Swedish National Institute for Working Life, Solna, Sweden. OBJECTIVES: To review the possible association between occupational exposure to dust and ischaemic heart ...

Correspondence to Dr Leah H Schinasi, Occupational and Environmental Health, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; lhs36{at}drexel.edu Objectives High ...

1 Department of Occupational Medicine, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan, Italy 2 Chair of Occupational Medicine, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Sassari, Italy 3 ...

2 Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 3 Department of Mother and Child Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran ...

Epidemiologic studies indicate that occupational exposure to solvents may increase risk of Parkinson disease (PD). We constructed a population-based case-control study of incident PD using a register ...

Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Russian N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Center, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia Correspondence to Professor David G Zaridze, Department of ...

Objectives To characterise geographical distribution and time trends of chronic kidney disease (CKD) mortality in the context of the epidemic of Mesoamerican nephropathy (MeN), likely related to ...

Correspondence to Professor Arnstein Mykletun; Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Kalfarveien 31, 5018 Bergen, Norway; arnstein.mykletun{at}iuh.uib.no If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...