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Original articles

Workplace

• Comparison of occupational exposure assessment methods in a case–control study of lead, genetic susceptibility and risk of adult brain tumours (25 August, 2010) Free

  Parveen Bhatti, Patricia A Stewart, Martha S Linet, Aaron Blair, Peter D Inskip, Preetha Rajaraman
• Reduction of cooking oil fume exposure following an engineering intervention in Chinese restaurants (30 September, 2010)

  Chih-Hong Pan, Tung-Sheng Shih, Chiou-Jong Chen, Jin-Huei Hsu, Shun-Chih Wang, Chien-Ping Huang, Ching-Tang Kuo, Kuen-Yuh Wu, Howard Hu, Chang-Chuan Chan
• Gender and sex differences in job status and hypertension (23 September, 2010)

  Jane E Clougherty, Ellen A Eisen, Martin D Slade, Ichiro Kawachi, Mark R Cullen
• Prevalence of airflow limitation among employees in Norwegian smelters: a longitudinal study (26 August, 2010)

  Vidar Søyseth, Helle Laier Johnsen, Merete Drevvatne Bugge, Siri Merete Hetland, Johny Kongerud
• Surveillance of mesothelioma and workers' compensation in British Columbia, Canada (27 September, 2010)

  Tracy L Kirkham, Mieke W Koehoorn, Christopher B McLeod, Paul A Demers
• Traffic-related air pollution and pregnancy outcomes in the Dutch ABCD birth cohort study (25 August, 2010)

  Ulrike Gehring, Manon van Eijsden, Marieke B A Dijkema, Marcel F van der Wal, Paul Fischer, Bert Brunekreef
• Exposures in painting-related occupations and risk of lung cancer among men: results from two case–control studies in Montreal (4 September, 2010)

  Agnihotram V Ramanakumar, Marie-Élise Parent, Lesley Richardson, Jack Siemiatycki
• Violence at the workplace increases the risk of musculoskeletal pain among nursing home workers (27 September, 2010)

  Helena Miranda, Laura Punnett, Rebecca Gore, Jon Boyer
• Hand-arm vibration syndrome among a group of construction workers in Malaysia (8 October, 2010)

  Ting Anselm Su, Victor Chee Wai Hoe, Retneswari Masilamani, Awang Bulgiba Awang Mahmud

Environment

• Long-term air pollution exposure and risk factors for cardiovascular diseases among the elderly in Taiwan (10 September, 2010)

  Kai-Jen Chuang, Yuan-Horng Yan, Shu-Yi Chiu, Tsun-Jen Cheng