Table of contents

Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: Predictors of low back pain in nursing home workers after implementation of a safe resident handling programme (10 November, 2016)

  Judith E Gold, Laura Punnett, Rebecca J Gore, ProCare Research Team
• Original article: End-stage renal disease after occupational lead exposure: 20 years of follow-up (14 December, 2016)

  Marie Evans, Andrea Discacciati, Abdul Rashid Quershi, Agneta Åkesson, Carl-Gustaf Elinder
• Original article: Heat strain, volume depletion and kidney function in California agricultural workers (16 January, 2017) Free

  Sally Moyce, Diane Mitchell, Tracey Armitage, Daniel Tancredi, Jill Joseph, Marc Schenker
• Original article: Shift work, job strain and changes in the body mass index among women: a prospective study (4 November, 2016)

  Kaori Fujishiro, Eileen Lividoti Hibert, Eva Schernhammer, Janet W Rich-Edwards
• Original article: Cancer incidence in cohorts of workers in the rubber manufacturing industry first employed since 1975 in the UK and Sweden (6 January, 2017)

  M Boniol, A Koechlin, T Sorahan, K Jakobsson, P Boyle
• Original article:

  Occupational allergy to fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) in laboratory workers

  (30 December, 2016)

  Meinir Jones, Sue Blair, Stephanie MacNeill, Jennifer Welch, Alice Hole, Peter Baxter, Paul Cullinan
• Original article: Occupational factors and markers of ovarian reserve and response among women at a fertility centre (6 February, 2017)

  Lidia Mínguez-Alarcón, Irene Souter, Paige L Williams, Jennifer B Ford, Russ Hauser, Jorge E Chavarro, Audrey J Gaskins
• Original article: Work and health in Latin America: results from the working conditions surveys of Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Central America and Uruguay (16 January, 2017)

  Pamela Merino-Salazar, Lucía Artazcoz, Cecilia Cornelio, María José Itatí Iñiguez, Marianela Rojas, David Martínez-Iñigo, Alejandra Vives, Lorena Funcasta, Fernando G Benavides
• Original article: Lung cancer risk in welders and foundry workers with a history of heavy smoking in the USA: The National Lung Screening Trial (9 January, 2017)

  Jason Y Y Wong, Bryan A Bassig, Wei Jie Seow, Wei Hu, Bu-Tian Ji, Aaron Blair, Debra T Silverman, Qing Lan

Environment

• Original Article: Risk factors for persistence of lower respiratory symptoms among community members exposed to the 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attacks (24 March, 2017)

  Hannah T Jordan, Stephen M Friedman, Joan Reibman, Roberta M Goldring, Sara A Miller Archie, Felix Ortega, Howard Alper, Yongzhao Shao, Carey B Maslow, James E Cone, Mark R Farfel, Kenneth I Berger

Methodology

• Original Article: Mesothelin promoter variants are associated with increased soluble mesothelin-related peptide levels in asbestos-exposed individuals (25 March, 2017)

  Chiara De Santi, Perla Pucci, Alessandra Bonotti, Ombretta Melaiu, Monica Cipollini, Roberto Silvestri, Veronika Vymetalkova, Elisa Barone, Elisa Paolicchi, Alda Corrado, Irene Lepori, Irene Dell’Anno, Lucia Pellè, Pavel Vodicka, Luciano Mutti, Rudy Foddis, Alfonso Cristaudo, Federica Gemignani, Stefano Landi