Table of contents

Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: Early prognosis of noise-induced hearing loss (25 July, 2014)

  Hanns Moshammer, Michael Kundi, Peter Wallner, Alois Herbst, Anton Feuerstein, Hans-Peter Hutter
• Original article:

  Persistence of livestock-associated antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among industrial hog operation workers in North Carolina over 14 days

  (8 September, 2014)

  Maya Nadimpalli, Jessica L Rinsky, Steve Wing, Devon Hall, Jill Stewart, Jesper Larsen, Keeve E Nachman, Dave C Love, Elizabeth Pierce, Nora Pisanic, Jean Strelitz, Laurel Harduar-Morano, Christopher D Heaney
• Original article: Night shift work at specific age ranges and chronic disease risk factors (26 September, 2014)

  Cody Ramin, Elizabeth E Devore, Weike Wang, Jeffrey Pierre-Paul, Lani R Wegrzyn, Eva S Schernhammer
• Original article: Short-term lung function decline in tunnel construction workers (30 October, 2014)

  Bente Ulvestad, May Brit Lund, Berit Bakke, Yngvar Thomassen, Dag G Ellingsen

Environment

• Original article: Increased risk of respiratory illness associated with kerosene fuel use among women and children in urban Bangalore, India (23 October, 2014)

  Jae-Young Choi, Jill Baumgartner, Sarah Harnden, Bruce H Alexander, Robert J Town, George D'Souza, Gurumurthy Ramachandran
• Original article: The risks of acute exposure to black carbon in Southern Europe: results from the MED-PARTICLES project (10 November, 2014)

  Bart Ostro, Aurelio Tobias, Angeliki Karanasiou, Evangelia Samoli, Xavier Querol, Sophia Rodopoulou, Xavier Basagaña, Kostas Eleftheriadis, Evangelia Diapouli, Stergios Vratolis, Benedicte Jacquemin, Klea Katsouyanni, Jordi Sunyer, Francesco Forastiere, Massimo Stafoggia

Exposure assessment

• Original article: Developing a pooled job physical exposure data set from multiple independent studies: an example of a consortium study of carpal tunnel syndrome (10 December, 2014)

  Stephen S Bao, Jay M Kapellusch, Arun Garg, Barbara A Silverstein, Carisa Harris-Adamson, Susan E Burt, Ann Marie Dale, Bradley A Evanoff, Frederic E Gerr, Kurt T Hegmann, Linda A Merlino, Matthew S Thiese, David M Rempel

Methodology

• Original article: Social disparities in heart disease risk and survivor bias among autoworkers: an examination based on survival models and g-estimation (21 November, 2014)

  Sadie Costello, Sally Picciotto, David H Rehkopf, Ellen A Eisen