Running title: CTS in blue-collar workers and housewives ABSTRACT Objectives: We compared rates of surgically treated CTS among blue-/white-collar workers and housewives in the general population. Methods: We estimated numbers of surgically-treated cases of idiopathic CTS among 25–59-year-old residents of Tuscany, Italy, during 1997–2000 (when out-of-hospital CTS surgery was extremely rare), ba...

OBJECTIVES Rates of surgically treated carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) among blue- and white-collar workers and housewives in the general population were compared. METHODS Surgically treated cases of idiopathic CTS were investigated among 25-59-year-old residents of Tuscany, Italy, during 1997-2000, based on obligatory discharge records from all Italian public/private hospitals, archived accordi...

Backgroundthe concept of status of health has been considered more aggressively , and therefore, more attention has been paid to the integration of the different aspects of health quality in health assessment ,the study aims to assess prevalence of MSDs of housewives in Delhi and Noida Method: 100 Housewives of age 25-35, primi gravida and no pregnancy at time of survey were selected . Standard...

One of the more dramatic structural changes in a number of western industrial societies has involved the increased participation of women in the paid labour force. Little is known about the health consequences of this change. This paper reports the findings of a prospective longitudinal study of 8,556 pregnant women who were interviewed on three occasions; early in their pregnancy, shortly afte...

Objectives To investigate concordance in the health behaviors of women and their partners according to age and to investigate whether there was a stronger correlation between the health behaviors of housewives and those of their partners than between the health behaviors of non-housewives and those of their partners. Methods We used data obtained from women participants in the 2015 Korea Comm...

The life expectancy of both men and women has gradually been increasing in the past few decades due to improvement in medical facilities and its availability to larger number of people leading to an increase in the proportion of elderly people in the population. However, factors like the fast pace of life, smaller family norm, breaking of joint family system, and industrialisation are leading t...

BACKGROUND Body Mass Index (BMI) is considered as a major determinant of health. The objective of study was to find out differences between dietary practices, as well as BMI in educated housewives and working woman. It is supposed that both study groups may have difference in work pressures with resultant diverse preferences for food. This can affect health status particularly in relation to ob...

BACKGROUND Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 demonstrates the impact of musculoskeletal diseases as the second greatest cause of disability globally in all regions of the world. The study was conducted to determine the role of mathematically derived body volume (BV), body volume index (BVI), body mass index (BMI), body surface area (BSA) and body fat % (BF %) on musculoskeletal pain (MSP) amo...