Table of contents

Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: Ischaemic heart disease mortality and years of work in trucking industry workers (19 September, 2012)

  Jaime E Hart, Eric Garshick, Thomas J Smith, Mary E Davis, Francine Laden
• Original article: Personal and workplace psychosocial risk factors for carpal tunnel syndrome: a pooled study cohort (3 May, 2013)

  Carisa Harris-Adamson, Ellen A Eisen, Ann Marie Dale, Bradley Evanoff, Kurt T Hegmann, Matthew S Thiese, Jay M Kapellusch, Arun Garg, Susan Burt, Stephen Bao, Barbara Silverstein, Fred Gerr, Linda Merlino, David Rempel
• Original article: Do self-reported psychosocial working conditions predict low back pain after adjustment for both physical work load and depressive symptoms? A prospective study among female eldercare workers (17 June, 2013)

  Thomas Clausen, Lars L Andersen, Andreas Holtermann, Anette F B Jorgensen, Birgit Aust, Reiner Rugulies
• Original article: Association of blood lead and mercury with estimated GFR in herbalists after the ban of herbs containing aristolochic acids in Taiwan (23 May, 2013)

  Hsing-Hua Lin, Shan-An Chou, Hsiao-Yu Yang, Yaw-Huei Hwang, Ching-Hua Kuo, Tze-Wah Kao, Tsai-Chang Lo, Pau-Chung Chen
• Original article: Current employment status, occupational category, occupational hazard exposure and job stress in relation to telomere length: the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) (18 May, 2013)

  Kaori Fujishiro, Ana V Diez-Roux, Paul A Landsbergis, Nancy Swords Jenny, Teresa Seeman
• Original article: Chronic low level trimethyltin exposure and the risk of developing nephrolithiasis (23 May, 2013)

  Xiaojiang Tang, Nanchun Li, Lisha Kang, Amber M Dubois, Zhihong Gong, Banghua Wu, Guanchao Lai, Aichu Yang, Xiaoling Ruan, Hongbin Gao, Guanghua Zhu, Yichen Ge, Jinxin Zhang, Zhongning Lin, James R Olson, Xuefeng Ren
• Original article: A prospective study of carpal tunnel syndrome: workplace and individual risk factors (20 June, 2013)

  Susan Burt, James A Deddens, Ken Crombie, Yan Jin, Steve Wurzelbacher, Jessica Ramsey
• Original article: International variation in absence from work attributed to musculoskeletal illness: findings from the CUPID study (21 May, 2013)

  David Coggon, Georgia Ntani, Sergio Vargas-Prada, José Miguel Martinez, Consol Serra, Fernando G Benavides, Keith T Palmer, and other members of the CUPID Collaboration
• Short report: Does transfer of work from a public sector organisation to a commercial enterprise without staff reductions increase risk of long-term sickness absence among the staff? A cohort study of laboratory and radiology employees (8 May, 2013)

  Lauri Kokkinen, Marianna Virtanen, Jaana Pentti, Jussi Vahtera, Mika Kivimäki

Environment

• Original article: Pleural mesothelioma in relation to meteorological conditions and residential distance from an industrial source of asbestos (21 May, 2013)

  Josep Tarrés, Constança Albertí, Xavier Martínez-Artés, Rafael Abós-Herràndiz, Magdalena Rosell-Murphy, Isabel García-Allas, Ilona Krier, Gloria Cantarell, Miguel Gallego, Jaume Canela-Soler, Ramon Orriols