Table of contents

Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: Association between maternal occupational exposure to organic solvents and congenital heart defects, National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997–2002 (17 July, 2012)

  Suzanne M Gilboa, Tania A Desrosiers, Christina Lawson, Philip J Lupo, Tiffany J Riehle-Colarusso, Patricia A Stewart, Edwin van Wijngaarden, Martha A Waters, Adolfo Correa, National Birth Defects Prevention Study
• Mortality study of chemical workers exposed to dioxins: follow-up 23 years after chemical plant closure (5 July, 2012)

  Ulf Manuwald, Marcial Velasco Garrido, Jürgen Berger, Alfred Manz, Xaver Baur
• 10-Year prospective study of noise exposure and hearing damage among construction workers (12 June, 2012)

  Noah S Seixas, Rick Neitzel, Bert Stover, Lianne Sheppard, Patrick Feeney, David Mills, Sharon Kujawa
• Occupational exposure to particles and incidence of acute myocardial infarction and other ischaemic heart disease (12 June, 2012)

  Pernilla Wiebert, Maria Lönn, Karin Fremling, Maria Feychting, Bengt Sjögren, Gun Nise, T Kauppinen, Nils Plato, Per Gustavsson

Environment

• Original article: Perfluorooctanoic acid exposure is associated with elevated homocysteine and hypertension in US adults (31 May, 2012)

  Jin-Young Min, Kyung-Jong Lee, Jae-Beom Park, Kyoung-Bok Min
• Association between exhaled breath condensate nitrate + nitrite levels with ambient coarse particle exposure in subjects with airways disease (5 July, 2012)

  Sarah Manney, C M Meddings, R M Harrison, A H Mansur, A Karakatsani, A Analitis, Klea Katsouyanni, D Perifanou, I G Kavouras, N Kotronarou, J J de Hartog, J Pekkanen, K Hämeri, Harry ten Brink, Gerard Hoek, Jon G Ayres
• Short-term effects of air temperature on blood markers of coagulation and inflammation in potentially susceptible individuals (25 July, 2012)

  Claudia Luise Schäuble, Regina Hampel, Susanne Breitner, Regina Rückerl, Richard Phipps, David Diaz-Sanchez, Robert B Devlin, Jacqueline D Carter, Joleen Soukup, Robert Silbajoris, Lisa Dailey, Wolfgang Koenig, Josef Cyrys, Uta Geruschkat, Petra Belcredi, Ute Kraus, Annette Peters, Alexandra E Schneider

Exposure assessment

• Original article: High urinary bisphenol A concentrations in workers and possible laboratory abnormalities (5 May, 2012)

  Feng Wang, Jing Hua, Minjian Chen, Yankai Xia, Qi Zhang, Renzheng Zhao, Weixin Zhou, Zhengdong Zhang, Bingling Wang