Table of contents

Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: Mortality and end-stage renal disease incidence among dry cleaning workers (16 December, 2010)

  Geoffrey M Calvert, Avima M Ruder, Martin R Petersen
• Original article: The contribution of major risk factors and job strain to occupational class differences in coronary heart disease incidence: the MONICA Brianza and PAMELA population-based cohorts (30 December, 2010)

  Marco M Ferrario, Giovanni Veronesi, Lloyd E Chambless, Roberto Sega, Carla Fornari, Matteo Bonzini, Giancarlo Cesana
• Original article: Occupational exposure to arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead and nickel, and renal cell carcinoma: a case–control study from Central and Eastern Europe (8 January, 2011)

  Paolo Boffetta, Luc Fontana, Patricia Stewart, David Zaridze, Neonilia Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Vladimir Janout, Vladimir Bencko, Lenka Foretova, Viorel Jinga, Vsevolod Matveev, Helena Kollarova, Gilles Ferro, Wong-Ho Chow, Nathaniel Rothman, Dana van Bemmel, Sara Karami, Paul Brennan, Lee E Moore
• Original article: Differences in the association between sickness absence and long-term sub-optimal health by occupational position: a 14-year follow-up in the GAZEL cohort (17 January, 2011)

  Jane E Ferrie, Mika Kivimäki, Hugo Westerlund, Jenny Head, Maria Melchior, Archana Singh-Manoux, Marie Zins, Marcel Goldberg, Kristina Alexanderson, Jussi Vahtera
• Original article: Associations of hip osteoarthritis with history of recurrent exposure to manual handling of loads over 20 kg and work participation: a population-based study of men and women (18 January, 2011)

  Leena Kaila-Kangas, Jari Arokoski, Olli Impivaara, Eira Viikari-Juntura, Päivi Leino-Arjas, Ritva Luukkonen, Markku Heliövaara
• Original article: Cost-benefit analysis in occupational health: a comparison of intervention scenarios for occupational asthma and rhinitis among bakery workers (31 May, 2011) Free

  Tim Meijster, Birgit van Duuren-Stuurman, Dick Heederik, Remko Houba, Ernst Koningsveld, Nicholas Warren, Erik Tielemans
• Original article: Respiratory health and lung function in Chinese restaurant kitchen workers (5 February, 2011)

  Tze Wai Wong, Andromeda H S Wong, Frank S C Lee, Hong Qiu
• Original article: The role of work ability in the relationship between aerobic capacity and sick leave: a mediation analysis (17 February, 2011)

  Jorien E Strijk, Karin I Proper, Maartje M van Stralen, Peter Wijngaard, Willem van Mechelen, Allard J van der Beek

Practice

• Original article: SELDI-TOF derived serum biomarkers failed to differentiate between patients with beryllium sensitisation and patients with chronic beryllium disease (27 January, 2011)

  B C Tooker, R P Bowler, J M Orcutt, L A Maier, H M Christensen, L S Newman

Environment

• Original article:

  Stability of measured and modelled spatial contrasts in NO₂ over time

  (1 February, 2011)

  Marloes Eeftens, Rob Beelen, Paul Fischer, Bert Brunekreef, Kees Meliefste, Gerard Hoek
• Original article: Tumour necrosis factor G-308A polymorphism modifies the effect of home dampness on childhood asthma (9 February, 2011)

  Ching-Hui Tsai, Kuan-Yen Tung, Chang-Hao Chen, Yungling L Lee

Exposure assessment

• Original article: Biological monitoring of low-level 2-butoxyethanol exposure in decal transfer workers in bicycle manufacturing factories (27 January, 2011)

  Po-Chen Hung, Shu-Fang Cheng, Saou-Hsing Liou, Shih-Wei Tsai