Table of contents

Original articles

• An updated study of mortality among North American synthetic rubber industry workers (18 November, 2005)

  N Sathiakumar, J Graff, M Macaluso, G Maldonado, R Matthews, E Delzell
• Prevention of work related eye injuries: long term assessment of the effectiveness of a multicomponent intervention among metal workers (18 November, 2005)

  G Mancini, A Baldasseroni, G Laffi, S Curti, S Mattioli, F S Violante
• Incidence by occupation and industry of acute work related respiratory diseases in the UK, 1992–2001 (18 November, 2005)

  J C McDonald, Y Chen, C Zekveld, N M Cherry
• The threat to scientific integrity in environmental and occupational medicine (18 November, 2005)

  S Tong, J Olsen
• Prolonged standing at work and hospitalisation due to varicose veins: a 12 year prospective study of the Danish population (18 November, 2005)

  F Tüchsen, H Hannerz, H Burr, N Krause
• Prognostic factors for duration of sick leave in patients sick listed with acute low back pain: a systematic review of the literature (18 November, 2005)

  I A Steenstra, J H Verbeek, M W Heymans, P M Bongers
• Incidence of haematopoietic malignancies in US radiologic technologists (18 November, 2005)

  M S Linet, D M Freedman, A K Mohan, M M Doody, E Ron, K Mabuchi, B H Alexander, A Sigurdson, M Hauptmann
• Associations between ambient, personal, and indoor exposure to fine particulate matter constituents in Dutch and Finnish panels of cardiovascular patients (18 November, 2005)

  N A H Janssen, T Lanki, G Hoek, M Vallius, J J de Hartog, R Van Grieken, J Pekkanen, B Brunekreef
• Serum DDT, age at menarche, and abnormal menstrual cycle length (18 November, 2005)

  F Ouyang, M J Perry, S A Venners, C Chen, B Wang, F Yang, Z Fang, T Zang, L Wang, X Xu, X Wang
• The effect of asbestosis on lung cancer risk beyond the dose related effect of asbestos alone (18 November, 2005)

  A Reid, N de Klerk, G L Ambrosini, N Olsen, S C Pang, G Berry, A W Musk
• Long driving time is associated with haematological markers of increased cardiovascular risk in taxi drivers (18 November, 2005)

  J-C Chen, Y-J Chen, W P Chang, D C Christiani
• Does long term residency near industry have an impact on the body burden of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, furans, and polychlorinated biphenyls in older women? (18 November, 2005)

  T Pless-Mulloli, R Edwards, D Howel, R Wood, O Paepke, T Herrmann