Table of contents

Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: The epidemiology of malignant mesothelioma in women: gender differences and modalities of asbestos exposure (21 December, 2017)

  Alessandro Marinaccio, Marisa Corfiati, Alessandra Binazzi, Davide Di Marzio, Alberto Scarselli, Pierpaolo Ferrante, Michela Bonafede, Marina Verardo, Dario Mirabelli, Valerio Gennaro, Carolina Mensi, Gert Schallemberg, Guido Mazzoleni, Enzo Merler, Paolo Girardi, Corrado Negro, Flavia D’Agostin, Antonio Romanelli, Elisabetta Chellini, Stefano Silvestri, Cristiana Pascucci, Roberto Calisti, Fabrizio Stracci, Elisa Romeo, Valeria Ascoli, Luana Trafficante, Francesco Carrozza, Italo Francesco Angelillo, Domenica Cavone, Gabriella Cauzillo, Federico Tallarigo, Rosario Tumino, Massimo Melis, Sergio Iavicoli
• Original article: Long-term follow-up for cancer incidence in a cohort of Danish firefighters (21 October, 2017)

  Kajsa Kirstine Ugelvig Petersen, Julie Elbaek Pedersen, Jens Peter Bonde, Niels Erik Ebbehoej, Johnni Hansen
• Original article: Circulatory disease in French nuclear fuel cycle workers chronically exposed to uranium: a nested case–control study (31 October, 2017)

  Sergey Zhivin, Irina Guseva Canu, Estelle Davesne, Eric Blanchardon, Jérôme-Philippe Garsi, Eric Samson, Christine Niogret, Lydia B Zablotska, Dominique Laurier
• Original article: 3-(Bromomethyl)-2-chloro-4-(methylsulfonyl)- benzoic acid: a new cause of sensitiser induced occupational asthma, rhinitis and urticaria (24 November, 2017)

  Hille Suojalehto, Kirsi Karvala, Saana Ahonen, Katriina Ylinen, Liisa Airaksinen, Katri Suuronen, Sari Suomela, Irmeli Lindström
• Original article: Neurobehavioural symptoms and acute pesticide poisoning: a cross-sectional study among male pesticide applicators selected from three commercial farming systems in Ethiopia (1 February, 2018)

  Beyene Negatu, Roel Vermeulen, Yalemtshay Mekonnen, Hans Kromhout
• Original article: Case–control study to assess the association between colorectal cancer and selected occupational agents using INTEROCC job exposure matrix (8 December, 2017)

  Sonia El-Zaemey, TN Anand, Jane Shirley Heyworth, Terry Boyle, Martie van Tongeren, Lin Fritschi
• Original article: Sickness absence due to different musculoskeletal diagnoses by occupational class: a register-based study among 1.2 million Finnish employees (30 January, 2018)

  Johanna Pekkala, Ossi Rahkonen, Olli Pietiläinen, Eero Lahelma, Jenni Blomgren
• Original article: Occupational exposures to leaded and unleaded gasoline engine emissions and lung cancer risk (21 December, 2017)

  Mengting Xu, Jack Siemiatycki, Jérôme Lavoué, Romain Pasquet, Javier Pintos, Marie-Claude Rousseau, Lesley Richardson, Vikki Ho

Exposure assessment

• Original article: Prevalence of occupational exposure to asthmagens derived from animals, fish and/or shellfish among Australian workers (24 November, 2017)

  Sonia El-Zaemey, Renee N Carey, Ellie Darcey, Alison Reid, Deborah Catherine Glass, Geza P Benke, Tim R Driscoll, Susan Peters, Si Si, Michael J Abramson, Lin Fritschi