OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to find out which occupational factors account for the risk of the myocardial infarction. MATERIAL AND METHODS A questionnaire survey was performed during the period of one calendar year in all patients (1053 subjects, 692 men and 361 women) hospitalized at the Medical University of Łódź because of the first myocardial infarction. The questionnaire was prep...

BACKGROUND Occupational causes of respiratory cancers need to be further investigated: the role of occupational exposures in the aetiology of head and neck cancers remains largely unknown, and there are still substantial uncertainties for a number of suspected lung carcinogens. The main objective of the study is to examine occupational risk factors for lung and head and neck cancers. METHODS/...

BACKGROUND Non-occupational heavy metals are considered risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD). Several recent epidemiologic studies have evaluated the relationship between non-occupational cadmium exposure and risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study was designed to investigate the relationship between non-occupational cadmium exposure and risk factors for CHD using the...

Breast cancer is common malignancy in Thai female. Although there are well established risk factors, many environmental agents with an impact are still unknown especially with reference to occupation. The objective of this study was to investigate the risk of female breast cancer among different occupational categories in Thailand. A frequency-matched case-control study was conducted among Thai...

background and purpose: surgery is a high risk profession owing to musculoskeletal disorders (msds). fine and precise operations cause surgeons to adopt prolonged fixed posture. as there is limited information in this region, the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of msds and personal and occupational risk factors among surgeons in babol (a northern city in iran). materials an...

BACKGROUND Many epidemiological studies and reviews have been performed to identify the causes of bladder cancer. The aim of this review is to investigate the links between various environmental risk factors and cancer of the bladder. METHODS A systematic literature search was performed using PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, Scholar Google and Russian Google databases to identify reviews and e...

OBJECTIVES Sino-nasal cancer has been consistently associated with exposure to wood dust, leather dust, nickel and chromium compounds; for other occupational hazards, the findings are somewhat mixed. The aim of this study was to investigate the risk of sino-nasal epithelial cancer (SNEC) by histological type with prior exposure to suspected occupational risk factors and, in particular, those in...

background: occupational diseases are worldwide. some dentists believe that they are at a higher risk for development of some musculoskeletal disorders for the postures they should have during work. objective: to determine the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain and their associated occupational factors among dentists from shiraz, southern iran. methods: in a cross-sectional study, 90 dentists o...

To compare the prevalence of disabling low back pain (DLBP) and disabling wrist/hand pain (DWHP) among groups of workers carrying out similar physical activities in different cultural environments, and to explore explanations for observed differences, we conducted a cross-sectional survey in 18 countries. Standardised questionnaires were used to ascertain pain that interfered with everyday acti...

BACKGROUND Most research on long-term sickness absence has focussed on exposure to occupational psychosocial risk factors such as low decision latitude. These provide an incomplete explanation as they do not account for other relevant factors. Such occupational risk factors may be confounded by social or temperamental risk factors earlier in life. METHODS We analysed data from the 1958 Britis...