Table of contents

Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: Effects of job strain on fatigue: cross-sectional and prospective views of the job content questionnaire and effort–reward imbalance in the GAZEL cohort (17 August, 2011)

  Grace Sembajwe, Morten Wahrendorf, Johannes Siegrist, Remi Sitta, Marie Zins, Marcel Goldberg, Lisa Berkman
• Original article: Lung cancer mortality in North Carolina and South Carolina chrysotile asbestos textile workers (20 January, 2012)

  Leslie Elliott, Dana Loomis, John Dement, Misty J Hein, David Richardson, Leslie Stayner
• Original article: Work-related asthma in France: recent trends for the period 2001–2009 (1 March, 2012)

  Christophe Paris, Joseph Ngatchou-Wandji, Amandine Luc, Roseanne McNamee, Lynda Bensefa-Colas, Lynda Larabi, Maylis Telle-Lamberton, Fabrice Herin, Alain Bergeret, Vincent Bonneterre, Patrick Brochard, Dominique Choudat, Dominique Dupas, Robert Garnier, Jean-Claude Pairon, Raymond M Agius, Jacques Ameille, the members of the RNV3P
• Original article: Paraquat application and respiratory health effects among South Korean farmers (2 January, 2012)

  Eun Shil Cha, Yun Keun Lee, Eun Kyeong Moon, Yong Bae Kim, Yong-Jin Lee, Woo Chul Jeong, Eun Young Cho, Ik Jin Lee, Jongil Hur, Mina Ha, Won Jin Lee
• Original article: Does uranium induce circulatory diseases? First results from a French cohort of uranium workers (3 March, 2012)

  Irina Guseva Canu, Jerome-Philippe Garsi, Sylvaine Caër-Lorho, Sophie Jacob, Philippe Collomb, Alain Acker, Dominique Laurier
• Original article: A case-crossover study of laceration injuries in pork processing (12 April, 2012)

  Lina Lander, Gary Sorock, Terry L Stentz, Lynette M Smith, Murray Mittleman, Melissa J Perry
• Original article: Cardiovascular disease mortality among British asbestos workers (1971–2005) (2 April, 2012) Free

  Anne-Helen Harding, Andrew Darnton, John Osman

Environment

• Original article: Association between long-term exposure to traffic particles and blood pressure in the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study (1 March, 2012)

  Joel Schwartz, Stacey E Alexeeff, Irina Mordukhovich, Alexandros Gryparis, Pantel Vokonas, Helen Suh, Brent A Coull
• Original article: Immediate ozone effects on heart rate and repolarisation parameters in potentially susceptible individuals (17 November, 2011)

  Regina Hampel, Susanne Breitner, Wojciech Zareba, Ute Kraus, Mike Pitz, Uta Geruschkat, Petra Belcredi, Annette Peters, Alexandra Schneider, for the Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg (KORA) Study Group

Exposure assessment

• Original article: Basal ganglia intensity indices and diffusion weighted imaging in manganese-exposed welders (23 March, 2012)

  Susan R Criswell, Joel S Perlmutter, John L Huang, Nima Golchin, Hubert P Flores, Angela Hobson, Michael Aschner, Keith M Erikson, Harvey Checkoway, Brad A Racette

Methodology

• Original article: Sharing the knowledge gained from occupational cohort studies: a call for action (2 January, 2012)

  Thomas Behrens, Birte Mester, Lin Fritschi