1 Graduate student of Department of Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan 2 Department of Epidemiology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo ...

OBJECTIVES To compare the relative effects on performance of sleep deprivation and alcohol. METHODS Performance effects were studied in the same subjects over a period of 28 hours of sleep deprivation ...

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Correspondence to Professor Hsien-Ho Lin, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University, 17 Xu-Zhou Road, Rm706, Taipei 100, Taiwan; hsienho{at}ntu.edu.tw Objectives ...

OBJECTIVES To systematically evaluate the available evidence on occupational risk factors of shoulder pain. METHODS Relevant reports were identified by a systematic search of Medline, Embase, Psychlit ...

Objective To conduct an updated literature review and meta-analysis of studies of pleural malignant mesothelioma (PMM) risk among persons exposed to asbestos non-occupationally (household and ...

OBJECTIVES To describe the cancer pattern in a cohort of commercial pilots by follow up through the Icelandic Cancer Registry. METHODS This is a retrospective cohort study of 458 pilots with emphasis ...

Correspondence to Professor Frank J Kelly, NIHR Health protection Unit in Health Impacts of Environmental Hazards, King's College London, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK; frank.kelly{at}kcl.ac ...

OBJECTIVES To identify work related risk factors of future low back pain (LBP) in a cohort of construction workers free of LBP at the start of follow up. METHODS The Hamburg construction worker study ...

1 School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China 2 School of Economics and Management, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal ...

1 Reader in Clinical Health Psychology, Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK 2 Consultant in ...