Table of contents

Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: Mortality from non-malignant respiratory diseases among workers in the Norwegian silicon carbide industry: associations with dust exposure (1 March, 2011)

  Merete Drevvatne Bugge, Solveig Føreland, Kristina Kjærheim, Wijnand Eduard, Jan Ivar Martinsen, Helge Kjuus
• Original article:

  Vitamin B₁₂ and folate deficiency and elevated plasma total homocysteine in workers with chronic exposure to chromate

  (20 April, 2011)

  Tian-Cheng Wang, Guang Jia, Ji Zhang, Yan-Hui Ma, Lan-Zheng Liu, Ning Zhang, Wei-Yue Feng, Jing-Wen Zhou, Yan-Shuang Song, Lei Yan, Xian-Mei Du
• Original article: A cross-sectional study of exposures, lung function and respiratory symptoms among aluminium cast-house workers (14 April, 2011)

  F G B G J van Rooy, R Houba, H Stigter, V A C Zaat, M M Zengeni, J M Rooyackers, H E Boers, D J J Heederik
• Original article: Unexpected excessive chronic obstructive pulmonary disease mortality among female silk textile workers in Shanghai, China (12 April, 2011) Free

  Ling Cui, Lisa G Gallagher, Roberta M Ray, Wenjin Li, Daoli Gao, Yingzhe Zhang, Sverre Vedal, David B Thomas, Harvey Checkoway
• Original article: Gender differences in occupational exposure patterns (12 April, 2011)

  Amanda Eng, Andrea 't Mannetje, Dave McLean, Lis Ellison-Loschmann, Soo Cheng, Neil Pearce
• Original article: Hospital admissions for neurological and renal diseases among dentists and dental assistants occupationally exposed to mercury (20 April, 2011)

  Lau Caspar Thygesen, Esben Meulengracht Flachs, Kirsten Hanehøj, Helge Kjuus, Knud Juel
• Original article: Working patterns and vitamin D status in mid-life: a cross-sectional study of the 1958 British birth cohort (20 April, 2011)

  Maria Ward, Diane J Berry, Chris Power, Elina Hyppönen
• Original article: Coal workers' pneumoconiosis in the United States: regional differences 40 years after implementation of the 1969 Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act (19 May, 2011)

  Eva Suarthana, A Scott Laney, Eileen Storey, Janet M Hale, Michael D Attfield
• Original article: A workforce-based study of occupational exposures and asthma symptoms in cleaning workers (10 May, 2011)

  David Vizcaya, Maria C Mirabelli, Josep-Maria Antó, Ramon Orriols, Felip Burgos, Lourdes Arjona, Jan-Paul Zock
• Original article:

  Associations between cigarette smoking, obesity, sociodemographic characteristics and remote-sensing-derived estimates of ambient PM_2.5: results from a Canadian population-based survey

  (24 May, 2011)

  Paul J Villeneuve, Mark S Goldberg, Richard T Burnett, Aaron van Donkelaar, Hong Chen, Randall V Martin

Environment

• Original article: Workplace and individual risk factors for carpal tunnel syndrome (25 May, 2011)

  Susan Burt, Ken Crombie, Yan Jin, Steve Wurzelbacher, Jessica Ramsey, James Deddens