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    A new look for OEM in 2015 (2014)
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    Publikationsdatum: 2014-12-17
    Beschreibung: In this first edition of Occupational and Environmental Medicine for 2015 we have introduced a new front cover. We have decided to retire the ‘word cloud’, which has adorned the front cover since May 2012. This word cloud was based on the frequency of words contained in articles published in OEM prior to that date and after more than two and a half years it was becoming increasingly out of date. Our new front cover retains the blue colour scheme and continues the tradition of OEM being known as the ‘blue journal‘ amongst occupational health journals. The central feature of the new cover is a globe which signifies the wide reach of OEM around the world. For this first edition, we have selected a group of pictures which illustrate a range of hazardous working environments, as well as motor vehicle exhausts, an increasingly recognised contributor to a wide...
    Schlagwort(e): Musculoskeletal
    Print ISSN: 1351-0711
    Digitale ISSN: 1470-7926
    Thema: Medizin
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    Urinary VEGF and PGE2 levels and the association with arsenical metabolites in copper-smelting workers (2014)
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    Publikationsdatum: 2014-09-09
    Beschreibung: Objectives To examine vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and PGE2 levels in urine from the copper smelting workers exposed to arsenic and analyse the relationships between urinary VEGF or PGE2 level and arsenical metabolites. Methods The study was conducted in a group of 106 copper-smelting male workers. Information about each subject was obtained by questionnaire, inorganic As (iAs), monomethylarsonic acid (MMA), dimethylarsinic acid (DMA), VEGF and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) in urine were determined. Standing height, body weight, and blood pressure were measured. Results According to the urine arsenic levels, participants were separated into three groups: Group 1: urine total arsenic 〈35 mg/L, Group 2: 35–100 mg/L, and Group 3: 〉100 mg/L. The median levels of urinary VEGF and PGE2 in Groups 1, 2 and 3 were 10.57 and 1032.0 pg/mL, 24.39 and 1060.9 pg/mL, and 49.0 and 1330.4 pg/mL, respectively. Urinary VEGF levels were positive associated with arsenical metabolites (iAs, MMA, DMA and TAs). Additionally, urinary VEGF and PGE2 levels were all correlated positively with the urinary MMA% (r=0.221, p=0.026 and r=0.206, p=0.037). While urinary VEGF was negatively with DMA% and secondary methylation index (r=–0.242, p=0.014 and r=–0.214, p=0.030, respectively). Conclusions Urinary VEGF and PGE2 levels increased in arsenic exposure copper smelting workers, and urinary VEGF levels are well associated with the urinary arsenicals. This finding may provide useful information for developing measurement, prevention and treatment of damage induced by arsenic in the future.
    Schlagwort(e): Metals, Other exposures
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    Thema: Medizin
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    Personal and workplace psychosocial risk factors for carpal tunnel syndrome: a pooled study cohort (2013)
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    Publikationsdatum: 2013-07-11
    Beschreibung: Background Between 2001 and 2010, six research groups conducted coordinated multiyear, prospective studies of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) incidence in US workers from various industries and collected detailed subject-level exposure information with follow-up symptom, physical examination, electrophysiological measures and job changes. Objective This analysis of the pooled cohort examined the incidence of dominant-hand CTS in relation to demographic characteristics and estimated associations with occupational psychosocial factors and years worked, adjusting for confounding by personal risk factors. Methods 3515 participants, without baseline CTS, were followed-up to 7 years. Case criteria included symptoms and an electrodiagnostic study consistent with CTS. Adjusted HRs were estimated in Cox proportional hazard models. Workplace biomechanical factors were collected but not evaluated in this analysis. Results Women were at elevated risk for CTS (HR=1.30; 95% CI 0.98 to 1.72), and the incidence of CTS increased linearly with both age and body mass index (BMI) over most of the observed range. High job strain increased risk (HR=1.86; 95% CI 1.11 to 3.14), and social support was protective (HR=0.54; 95% CI 0.31 to 0.95). There was an inverse relationship with years worked among recent hires with the highest incidence in the first 3.5 years of work (HR=3.08; 95% CI 1.55 to 6.12). Conclusions Personal factors associated with an increased risk of developing CTS were BMI, age and being a woman. Workplace risk factors were high job strain, while social support was protective. The inverse relationship between CTS incidence and years worked among recent hires suggests the presence of a healthy worker survivor effect in the cohort.
    Schlagwort(e): Musculoskeletal
    Print ISSN: 1351-0711
    Digitale ISSN: 1470-7926
    Thema: Medizin
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    A prospective study of carpal tunnel syndrome: workplace and individual risk factors (2013)
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    Publikationsdatum: 2013-07-11
    Beschreibung: Objectives To quantify the risk for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) from workplace physical factors, particularly hand activity level and forceful exertion, while taking into account individual factors including age, gender, body mass index (BMI), and pre-existing medical conditions. Methods Three healthcare and manufacturing workplaces were selected for inclusion on the basis of range of exposure to hand activity level and forceful exertion represented by their jobs. Each study participant's job tasks were observed and evaluated onsite and videotaped for further analysis, including frequency and duration of exertion and postural deviation. Individual health assessment entailed electrodiagnostic testing of median and ulnar nerves, physical examination and questionnaires at baseline with annual follow-up for 2 years. Results The incidence of dominant hand CTS during the study was 5.11 per 100 person-years (29 cases). Adjusted HRs for dominant hand CTS were as follows: working with forceful exertion ≥20% but 〈60% of the time: 2.83 (1.18, 6.79) and ≥60% of the time vs 〈20%: 19.57 (5.96, 64.24), BMI ≥30 kg/m 2 (obesity): 3.19 (1.28, 7.98). The American Conference for Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value (TLV) for hand activity level also predicted CTS, HR=1.40 (1.11, 1.78) for each unit increase in the TLV ratio, controlling for obesity and job strain. Conclusions Workplace and individual risk factors both contribute to the risk for CTS. Time spent in forceful exertion can be a greater risk for CTS than obesity if the job exposure is high. Preventive workplace efforts should target forceful exertions.
    Schlagwort(e): Musculoskeletal
    Print ISSN: 1351-0711
    Digitale ISSN: 1470-7926
    Thema: Medizin
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    Does transfer of work from a public sector organisation to a commercial enterprise without staff reductions increase risk of long-term sickness absence among the staff? A cohort study of laboratory and radiology employees (2013)
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    Publikationsdatum: 2013-07-11
    Beschreibung: Background Privatisations of public sector organisations are not uncommon, and some studies suggest that such organisational changes may adversely affect employee health. In this study, we examined whether transfer of work from public sector hospital units to commercial enterprises, without major staff reductions, was associated with an increased risk of long-term sickness absence among employees. Methods A cohort study of 962 employees from four public hospital laboratory and radiology units in three hospitals which were privatised during the follow-up and 1832 employees from similar units without such organisational changes. Records of new long-term sick leaves (〉90 days) were obtained from national health registers and were linked to the data. Mean follow-up was 9.2 years. Results Age- and sex-adjusted HR for long-term sickness absence after privatisation was 0.83 (95% CI 0.68 to 1.00) among employees whose work unit underwent a change from a public organisation to a commercial enterprise compared with employees in unchanged work units. Further adjustments for occupation, socioeconomic status, type of job contract, size of residence and sick leaves before privatisation had little impact on the observed association. A sensitivity analysis with harmonised occupations across the two groups replicated the finding (multivariable adjusted HR 0.92 (0.70–1.20)). Conclusions In this study, transfer of work from public organisation to commercial enterprise did not increase the risk of long-term sickness absence among employees.
    Schlagwort(e): Musculoskeletal
    Print ISSN: 1351-0711
    Digitale ISSN: 1470-7926
    Thema: Medizin
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    Effects of environmental cadmium exposure on liver function in adults (2013)
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    Publikationsdatum: 2013-03-14
    Beschreibung: Background There is inconsistency regarding the effects of cadmium exposure on liver function between the positive results found in animal studies and the negative results highlighted in epidemiological studies. We investigated whether environmental cadmium exposure is associated with an elevation in serum liver enzyme activity in Korean adults. Methods This cross-sectional study evaluated adult participants without liver disease from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for 2008–2009. Multiple linear regression was conducted to investigate the association between blood cadmium concentration and the serum levels of aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) adjusting for age, sex, body mass index and the amount of alcohol consumption. Subjects were stratified into quartiles by their cumulative cadmium exposure rank. We estimated the multivariate-adjusted ORs for liver enzyme elevation using logistic regression models with the first quartile as the reference group. Results Total number of the subjects in the analysis was 3914. The blood cadmium concentrations were significantly associated with liver enzyme levels (AST, β=2.677, p value 〈0.0001; ALT, β=3.696, p value 〈0.0001; ALP, β=11.730, p value 〈0.0001). As the cadmium levels approached higher quartiles, the ORs for an elevated AST, ALT and ALP was increased significantly. Conclusions Environmental cadmium exposures are associated with an elevation in serum liver enzyme levels in Korean adults.
    Schlagwort(e): Metals, Other exposures
    Print ISSN: 1351-0711
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    Thema: Medizin
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    Employment and occupational outcomes of workers with musculoskeletal pain in a French region (2013)
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    Publikationsdatum: 2013-02-10
    Beschreibung: Objectives To study the employment and occupational outcomes of workers who were diagnosed with upper limb musculoskeletal disorders (UL-MSDs) or had complained of upper limb musculoskeletal pain a few years before compared with workers who had no upper limb pain. Methods In 2002–2005, an epidemiological surveillance system was set up. Occupational physicians examined 3710 randomly selected workers. It focused on six UL-MSDs: rotator cuff syndrome, lateral epicondylitis, flexor-extensor peritendinitis of the hands and fingers, de Quervain's disease, carpal tunnel syndrome and ulnar tunnel syndrome. Three groups were constituted: a ‘UL-MSD’ group (workers with a clinically diagnosed UL-MSD at baseline, 13% of the cohort); a ‘PAIN’ group (workers with pain in the previous 7 days at baseline and without any clinically diagnosed form, 38%); and a ‘HEALTHY’ group (workers with no disorder or upper limb pain in the previous 7 days, 49%). They completed a questionnaire between 2007 and 2009. Results A total of 2332 responded. Fewer subjects were still in work in the ‘UL-MSD’ group (79.3%) than in the ‘PAIN’ (85.9%) and ‘HEALTHY’ (90.4%) groups, the difference remaining significant after adjusting for gender, age, occupational category, type of company and comorbidities. Of the subjects still in work, 24% had changed their work station in the same company in the ‘PAIN’ group compared with 19% in the ‘HEALTHY’ group and 21% in the ‘UL-MSD’ group. Conclusions This study showed the impact of musculoskeletal pain on employment outcome and the difficulty of keeping workers with musculoskeletal problems at work.
    Schlagwort(e): Musculoskeletal
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    Thema: Medizin
    Publiziert von BMJ Publishing Group
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