Objectives This study assessed finger blood flow (FBF) among groundskeepers using laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) and evaluated the association of the FBF with hand-arm vibration (HAV) exposure dose.

9 INSERM, UMR_S 1136, Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Villejuif, France 10 Sorbonne University, UPMC University of Paris 06, UMR_S 1136, Pierre Louis Institute of ...

Correspondence to Dr Jaana I Halonen, Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland; Jaana.Halonen{at}thl.fi Objectives Long commuting times are linked to poor ...

3 National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, PO Box 220, FIN-00520 Helsinki, Finland Correspondence to: Dr M Kivimäki Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 9, ...

a The Medical Centre, Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa, Queensland 4825, Australia, b School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia Dr A Michael Donoghue, Senior ...

3 VA Normative Ageing Study, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System and the Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Objectives Cardiovascular ...

3 Center for Ergonomics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 4 Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (RMCOEH), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, ...

1 Programa Salud y Trabajo en América Central (SALTRA), Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA), Heredia, Costa Rica 2 Division of ...

Objectives A 25% reduction of weekly work hours for full-time employees has been shown to improve sleep and alertness and reduce stress during both workdays and days off. The aim of the present study ...

Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Russian N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Center, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia Correspondence to Professor David G Zaridze, Department of ...

The mortality of a census population and a prospective cohort of men employed on an antimony smelter in the north east of England was followed up from 1961-1992. The workers studied were exposed to a ...

Aims: (1) To describe the prevalence of fatigue among employees in different work schedules (day work, three-shift, five-shift, and irregular shift work); (2) to investigate whether different work ...