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Original articles

• Maternal levels of dichlorodiphenyl-dichloroethylene (DDE) may increase weight and body mass index in adult female offspring (5 December, 2008) Free

  W Karmaus, J R Osuch, I Eneli, L M Mudd, J Zhang, D Mikucki, P Haan, S Davis
• Socio-economic differences in the association between sickness absence and mortality: the prospective DREAM study of Danish private sector employees (19 September, 2008)

  T Lund, M Kivimäki, K B Christensen, M Labriola
• Performance of self-reported occupational exposure compared to a job-exposure matrix approach in asthma and chronic rhinitis (19 September, 2008)

  P J Quinlan, G Earnest, M D Eisner, E H Yelin, P P Katz, J R Balmes, P D Blanc
• Dust and chemical exposures, and miscarriage risk among women textile workers in Shanghai, China (19 September, 2008)

  E Y Wong, R M Ray, D-L Gao, K J Wernli, W Li, E D Fitzgibbons, J E Camp, G Astrakianakis, P J Heagerty, A J De Roos, V L Holt, D B Thomas, H Checkoway
• Predicted mortality from malignant mesothelioma among women exposed to blue asbestos at Wittenoom, Western Australia (19 September, 2008)

  A Reid, G Berry, J Heyworth, N H de Klerk, A W Musk
• Lung cancer mortality and iron oxide exposure in a French steel-producing factory (19 September, 2008)

  E Bourgkard, P Wild, B Courcot, M Diss, J Ettlinger, P Goutet, D Hémon, N Marquis, J-M Mur, C Rigal, M-P Rohn-Janssens, J-J Moulin
• Air pollution and asthma severity in adults (18 November, 2008)

  E Rage, V Siroux, N Künzli, I Pin, F Kauffmann, on behalf of the Epidemiological Study on the Genetics and Environment of Asthma
• The relationship of respiratory and cardiovascular hospital admissions to the southern California wildfires of 2003 (18 November, 2008)

  R J Delfino, S Brummel, J Wu, H Stern, B Ostro, M Lipsett, A Winer, D H Street, L Zhang, T Tjoa, D L Gillen
• Birth weight and fetal growth in infants born to female hairdressers and their sisters (18 November, 2008)

  A Axmon, L Rylander
• Incidence of acute pesticide poisonings in Nicaragua: a public health concern (21 November, 2008)

  M Corriols, J Marín, J Berroteran, L M Lozano, I Lundberg