Occupational and Environmental Medicine: 71 (2)

Commentaries

Occupational Asthma guidelines: a systematic quality appraisal using the AGREE II instrument (8 November, 2013)
Theodore Lytras, Stefanos Bonovas, Christos Chronis, Athanasios K Konstantinidis, Frixos Kopsachilis, Dimitrios P Papamichail, George Dounias

Original article: Pesticides and other occupational exposures are associated with airway obstruction: the LifeLines cohort study (10 October, 2013) Free
K de Jong, H M Boezen, H Kromhout, R Vermeulen, D S Postma, J M Vonk, The LifeLines Cohort study
Original article: Patterns of work injuries: cases admitted to emergency room treatment compared to cases reported to the Danish Working Environment Authority during 2003–2010 (24 October, 2013)
Flemming Lander, Kent Jacob Nielsen, Kurt Rasmussen, Jens M Lauritsen
Original article: Changes in vitamin D and matrix metalloproteinase-9 in submariners during a submerged patrol (4 December, 2013)
A Baker, C L Wood, A M Wood, P Timms, A J Allsopp
Short report: Standing-based office work shows encouraging signs of attenuating post-prandial glycaemic excursion (2 December, 2013)
John P Buckley, Duane D Mellor, Michael Morris, Franklin Joseph
Original article: Biomonitoring in wearers of permethrin impregnated battle dress uniforms in Afghanistan and Germany (16 December, 2013)
Peter Kegel, Stephan Letzel, Bernd Rossbach
Original article: Gender differences in the effect of occupational endotoxin exposure on impaired lung function and death: the Shanghai Textile Worker Study (2 December, 2013)
Peggy S Lai, Jing Qing Hang, Feng Ying Zhang, Xinyi Lin, Bu Yong Zheng, Hei Lian Dai, Li Su, Tianxi Cai, David C Christiani

Original article: Air pollution from livestock farms, and asthma, allergic rhinitis and COPD among neighbouring residents (23 August, 2013)
Lidwien A M Smit, Mariëtte Hooiveld, Femke van der Sman-de Beer, Annemieke W J Opstal-van Winden, Johan Beekhuizen, Inge M Wouters, C Joris Yzermans, Dick Heederik

Letters: Multiple metal exposures and renal effect: their magnitude of contribution (23 July, 2013)
Tomoyuki Kawada
Letters: Associations of multiple metals with kidney outcomes in lead workers: author response (28 November, 2013)
Rebecca Shelley, Nam-Soo Kim, Patrick J Parsons, Byung-Kook Lee, Bernard G Jaar, Jeffrey Fadrowski, Jacqueline Agnew, Genevieve Matanoski, Brian S Schwartz, Amy J Steuerwald, Andrew C Todd, David Simon, Virginia M Weaver