OEM 01/Ago/2010; Vol. 67, No. 8

Occupational and Environmental Medicine
1 August 2010; Vol. 67, No. 8
URL: http://oem.bmj.com/content/vol67/issue8/?etoc

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Editorial
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OEM's impact factor still rising.
Dana Loomis. Occup Environ Med 2010;67 505. http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/67/8/505-a?etoc

Bladder cancer risk in painters
Paolo Vineis. Occup Environ Med 2010;67 505-506. http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/67/8/505-b?etoc

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Original article
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A new method to determine laterality of mobile telephone use in adolescents
Imo Inyang, Geza Benke, Ray McKenzie, Rory Wolfe, Michael J Abramson. Occup Environ Med 2010;67 507-512. http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/8/507?etoc

Lung cancer and exposure to quartz and diesel exhaust in Swedish iron ore miners with concurrent exposure to radon
Ingvar A Bergdahl, Hakan Jonsson, Kare Eriksson, Lena Damber, Bengt Jarvholm. Occup Environ Med 2010;67 513-518. http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/8/513?etoc

Lung cancer risk and radon exposure in a cohort of iron ore miners in Malmberget, Sweden
Hakan Jonsson, Ingvar A Bergdahl, Gustav Akerblom, Kare Eriksson, Kurt Andersson, Leif Kagstrom, Bengt Jarvholm, Lena Damber. Occup Environ Med 2010;67 519-525. http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/8/519?etoc

How valid is a short measure of effort-reward imbalance at work? A replication study from Sweden. 
Constanze Leineweber, Natalia Wege, Hugo Westerlund, Tores Theorell, Morten Wahrendorf, Johannes Siegrist. Occup Environ Med 2010;67 526-531. http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/8/526?etoc

Calculation of the benchmark duration of shift work associated with the development of impaired glucose metabolism: a 14-year cohort study on 7104 male workers
Yasushi Suwazono, Mirei Uetani, Mitsuhiro Oishi, Kumihiko Tanaka, Hideki Morimoto, Kouichi Sakata. Occup Environ Med 2010;67 532-537. http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/8/532?etoc

Reliability of job-title based physical work exposures for the upper extremity: comparison to self-reported and observed exposure estimates. 
Bethany T Gardner, David A Lombardi, Ann Marie Dale, Alfred Franzblau, Bradley A Evanoff. Occup Environ Med 2010;67 538-547. http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/8/538?etoc

The Employment Precariousness Scale (EPRES): psychometric properties of a new tool for epidemiological studies among waged and salaried workers. 
Alejandra Vives, Marcelo Amable, Montserrat Ferrer, Salvador Moncada, Clara Llorens, Carles Muntaner, Fernando G Benavides, Joan Benach. Occup Environ Med 2010;67 548-555. http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/8/548?etoc

Outdoor air pollution is associated with rapid decline of lung function in {alpha}-1-antitrypsin deficiency
Alice M Wood, Roy M Harrison, Sean Semple, Jon G Ayres, Robert A Stockley. Occup Environ Med 2010;67 556-561. http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/8/556?etoc

Do long periods off work in peak expiratory flow monitoring improve the sensitivity of occupational asthma diagnosis?
Vicky C Moore, Maritta S Jaakkola, Cedd B S G Burge, Charles F A Pantin, Alastair S Robertson, P Sherwood Burge. Occup Environ Med 2010;67 562-567. http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/8/562?etoc

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Review
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Bladder cancer risk in painters: a meta-analysis
Neela Guha, Nelson Kyle Steenland, Franco Merletti, Andrea Altieri, Vincent Cogliano, Kurt Straif. Occup Environ Med 2010;67 568-573. http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/8/568?etoc

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Short report
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The incidence of medically reported work-related ill health in the UK construction industry
S J Stocks, R McNamee, M Carder, R M Agius. Occup Environ Med 2010;67 574-576. http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/8/574?etoc