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Heavy manual work throughout the working lifetime and muscle strength among men at retirement age

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  • K Walker-Bone MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Arthritis Research UK/MRC Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • S D'Angelo MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • H E Syddall MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • K T Palmer MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Arthritis Research UK/MRC Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • C Cooper MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Arthritis Research UK/MRC Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • D Coggon MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Arthritis Research UK/MRC Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • A A Sayer MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK Academic Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, Wessex, UK Newcastle University Institute for Ageing and Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr K Walker-Bone, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK; kwb{at}mrc.soton.ac.uk
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Walker-Bone K, D'Angelo S, Syddall HE, et al
Heavy manual work throughout the working lifetime and muscle strength among men at retirement age
Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2016;73:284-286.

Publication history

  • Received September 2, 2015
  • Revised January 16, 2016
  • Accepted February 5, 2016
  • First published February 19, 2016.
Online issue publication 
June 16, 2016

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