Objectives Asbestos is an inflammatory agent, and there is evidence that inflammatory processes are involved in the development of cardiovascular disease. Whether asbestos is a risk factor for ...

Occupational and Environmental Medicine considers unsolicited submissions of a variety of article types, including original research, systematic reviews, and short reports. The Author Information ...

The development of methods for the assessment of the thermal environment is traced, and the reasons for the devising of special indices of thermal stress are discussed. The more important of the ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether an increased risk of cardiovascular disease might be caused by increased arrhythmogeneity and by unfavourable changes in autonomic cardiac control the changes in the ...

Occupational determinants of Long COVID in the population-based COVICAT cohort ...

Correspondence to: Rolf J Kleber, Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, P.O box 80.140, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands; R.Kleber{at}fss.uu.nl Objectives: To predict symptomatology ...

Objective To evaluate the prevalence of low back pain among nurses and caregivers working in neurodegenerative diseases specialized center, to determine occupational and extra occupational risk ...

Bone marrow specimens were obtained from seven workers who had been exposed to the dust of a calcareous sandstone consisting of 56·3% free silica. The pattern of changes was in the form of generalized ...

Objective High job demands and low resources significantly affect healthcare professionals, leading to burnout and diminished quality of care provided (QoCP). This study examines 1) the relative ...

1 Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Health Sciences, Community and Occupational Medicine, University Medical ...

Objective To conduct meta-analyses of occupational asbestos exposure and oesophageal, stomach and colorectal cancer risk, including a critical exposure assessment approach. Methods The search strategy ...