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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abstract A solution of tetramethyl lead, used as an antiknock agent in gasoline, was given by injection and inhalation to mice and by injection to rabbits. The signs of poisoning are described. Deaths ...

The aetiology and pathophysiology of sarcoidosis is ill defined—current hypotheses centre on complex genetic–immune–environmental interactions in an individual, triggering a granulomatous process. The ...

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 ...

1 Department of Health Sciences, Community and Occupational Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen/University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 2 Center for Human Resource, Organization ...

The management of the mine at Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia decided to enquire into the following questions with regard to men working underground in hot conditions: (a) Which of the various heat ...