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Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: Occupational characteristics and the progression of carotid artery intima-media thickness and plaque over 9 years: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) (12 September, 2014)

  Kaori Fujishiro, Ana V Diez Roux, Paul Landsbergis, Joel D Kaufman, Claudia E Korcarz, James H Stein
• Original article: Exposure–response relationships for select cancer and non-cancer health outcomes in a cohort of US firefighters from San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia (1950–2009) (11 February, 2015)

  Robert D Daniels, Stephen Bertke, Matthew M Dahm, James H Yiin, Travis L Kubale, Thomas R Hales, Dalsu Baris, Shelia H Zahm, James J Beaumont, Kathleen M Waters, Lynne E Pinkerton
• Original article: The effect of occupational farming on lung function development in young adults: a 15-year follow-up study (11 August, 2015)

  Anneli C S Bolund, Martin R Miller, Ioannis Basinas, Grethe Elholm, Øyvind Omland, Torben Sigsgaard, Vivi Schlünssen
• Original article: Mesoamerican nephropathy: geographical distribution and time trends of chronic kidney disease mortality between 1970 and 2012 in Costa Rica (21 July, 2015)

  Catharina Wesseling, Berna van Wendel de Joode, Jennifer Crowe, Ralf Rittner, Negin A Sanati, Christer Hogstedt, Kristina Jakobsson
• Original article: Diminished pulmonary function in long-term workers exposed to cotton dust determined in a cross-sectional study in small Pakistani enterprises (11 August, 2015)

  Abdul Wali Khan, Michael Kundi, Hanns Moshammer
• Original article: Non-communicable disease risk factor patterns among mining industry workers in Papua, Indonesia: longitudinal findings from the Cardiovascular Outcomes in a Papuan Population and Estimation of Risk (COPPER) Study (31 July, 2015)

  Rodrigo Rodriguez-Fernandez, Ekowati Rahajeng, Francesca Viliani, Haripurnomo Kushadiwijaya, Rachel M Amiya, Michael J Bangs

Environment

• Original article: Organophosphate insecticide use and cancer incidence among spouses of pesticide applicators in the Agricultural Health Study (6 July, 2015) Free

  Catherine C Lerro, Stella Koutros, Gabriella Andreotti, Melissa C Friesen, Michael C Alavanja, Aaron Blair, Jane A Hoppin, Dale P Sandler, Jay H Lubin, Xiaomei Ma, Yawei Zhang, Laura E Beane Freeman

Practice

• Original article: Work-focused cognitive–behavioural therapy and individual job support to increase work participation in common mental disorders: a randomised controlled multicentre trial (6 August, 2015)

  Silje Endresen Reme, Astrid Louise Grasdal, Camilla Løvvik, Stein Atle Lie, Simon Øverland