2 Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Professor Prawit Janwantanakul, ...

3 National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Utrecht, The Netherlands 5 Public Health and Primary Care Directorate, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK ...

Correspondence to: Dr IJ Kant, Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands; IJ.Kant{at}epid.unimaas.nl In 1998, a large scale prospective cohort ...

1 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Medical College, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan 2 Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Council of Labor Affairs, Taipei, ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 2 Birth Defects Monitoring Program, State Center for Health ...

Correspondence to Dr Ewan Carr, Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK; ewan.carr{at}kcl.ac.uk Objectives To characterise the baseline King’s ...

Frigihashi Clinic, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Jichi Medical School, 644–10 Higashi-Yokoyana, Frigihashi, Ibi, Gifu, SO1–0801, Japan Dr Masatoshi Matsumoto, Frigihashi Clinic, ...

Objectives Occupational asbestos exposure is causally linked to mesothelioma. However, whether exposure to only chrysotile asbestos is associated with mesothelioma risk, and the heterogeneity in risk ...

Correspondence to Professor Zuxun Lu, Social Medicine and Health Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Tongji Medical College, Wuhan 430030, China; zuxunlu{at}yahoo.com; Professor ...

Aim: To assess the incidence and risk factors for neck and shoulder pain in nurses. Methods: A longitudinal study of neck and shoulder pain was carried out in female nurses at two hospitals in England ...

Correspondence to: Professor Frank J Kelly, Environmental Research Group, School of Health & Life Science, Franklin-Wilkins Building, King’s College, London, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NN, UK; ...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether associations might be found, in patients with chronic airflow obstruction, between symptoms, peak flow rate (PEF), and particle mass and numbers, and to assess which ...