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Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: The role of mental health problems and common psychotropic drug treatments in accidental injury at work: a case–control study (13 March, 2014) Free

  Keith T Palmer, Stefania D'Angelo, E Clare Harris, Cathy Linaker, David Coggon
• Original article: Mortality from cancer and other causes in commercial airline crews: a joint analysis of cohorts from 10 countries (3 January, 2014)

  Gaël P Hammer, Anssi Auvinen, Bianca L De Stavola, Barbara Grajewski, Maryanne Gundestrup, Tor Haldorsen, Niklas Hammar, Susanna Lagorio, Anette Linnersjö, Lynne Pinkerton, Eero Pukkala, Vilhjálmur Rafnsson, Isabel dos–Santos–Silva, Hans H Storm, Trond-Eirik Strand, Anastasia Tzonou, Hajo Zeeb, Maria Blettner
• Original article: Exposure to chrysotile mining dust and digestive cancer mortality in a Chinese miner/miller cohort (16 January, 2014)

  Sihao Lin, Xiaorong Wang, Eiji Yano, Ignatius Yu, Yajia Lan, Midori N Courtice, David C Christiani
• Short report: Exposure to heavy physical occupational activities during working life and bone mineral density at the hip at retirement age (11 March, 2014)

  K Walker-Bone, S D'Angelo, H E Syddall, K T Palmer, C Cooper, D Coggon, E M Dennison
• Original article: Cumulative mechanical low-back load at work is a determinant of low-back pain (27 March, 2014)

  Pieter Coenen, Idsart Kingma, Cécile R L Boot, Paulien M Bongers, Jaap H van Dieën

Environment

• Original article: A community study of the effect of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolites on heart rate variability based on the Framingham risk score (13 March, 2014)

  Yingying Feng, Huizhen Sun, Yuanchao Song, Junzhe Bao, Xiji Huang, Jian Ye, Jing Yuan, Weihong Chen, David C Christiani, Tangchun Wu, Xiaomin Zhang
• Original article: Risk factors for chronic mucus hypersecretion in individuals with and without COPD: influence of smoking and job exposure on CMH (18 March, 2014)

  Akkelies E Dijkstra, Kim de Jong, H Marike Boezen, Hans Kromhout, Roel Vermeulen, Harry J M Groen, Dirkje S Postma, Judith M Vonk

Methodology

• Original article: Examining the association of lung cancer and highly correlated fibre size-specific asbestos exposures with a hierarchical Bayesian model (25 February, 2014)

  Ghassan B Hamra, Dana Loomis, John Dement