Table of contents

Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: Occupational pesticide exposure and subclinical hypothyroidism among male pesticide applicators (3 August, 2017)

  Catherine C Lerro, Laura E Beane Freeman, Curt T DellaValle, Muhammad G Kibriya, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Farzana Jasmine, Stella Koutros, Christine G Parks, Dale P Sandler, Michael C R Alavanja, Jonathan N Hofmann, Mary H Ward
• Original article: Long-term prognosis for neck-shoulder pain and disorders: a 14-year follow-up study (23 August, 2017) Free

  Emma Lise Thorlund Jakobsen, Karin Biering, Anette Kærgaard, Annett Dalbøge, Johan Hviid Andersen
• Original article: NIPSA: a new scale for measuring non-illness predictors of sickness absence (4 October, 2017)

  Samuel B Harvey, Min-Jung Wang, Sarah Dorrington, Max Henderson, Ira Madan, Stephani L Hatch, Matthew Hotopf
• Original article: Internet-based stress management for distressed managers: results from a randomised controlled trial (30 August, 2017)

  Robert Persson Asplund, Jesper Dagöö, Ida Fjellström, Linnea Niemi, Katja Hansson, Forough Zeraati, Masha Ziuzina, Anna Geraedts, Brjánn Ljótsson, Per Carlbring, Gerhard Andersson
• Original article: Retrospectively assessed physical work environment during working life and risk of sickness absence and labour market exit among older workers (17 August, 2017)

  Emil Sundstrup, Åse Marie Hansen, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Otto Melchior Poulsen, Thomas Clausen, Reiner Rugulies, Anne Møller, Lars L Andersen
• Original article: Occupational exposures and mammographic density in Spanish women (26 October, 2017)

  Virginia Lope, Javier García-Pérez, Beatriz Pérez-Gómez, Ana María Pedraza-Flechas, Juan Alguacil, Mª Carmen González-Galarzo, Miguel Angel Alba, Rudolf van der Haar, Rosa Ana Cortés-Barragán, Carmen Pedraz-Pingarrón, Pilar Moreo, Carmen Santamariña, María Ederra, Carmen Vidal, Dolores Salas-Trejo, Carmen Sánchez-Contador, Rafael Llobet, Marina Pollán
• Original article: Sleep duration as a mediator between an alternating day and night shift work schedule and metabolic syndrome among female hospital employees (23 August, 2017)

  Jill Korsiak, Joan Tranmer, Andrew Day, Kristan J Aronson

Exposure assessment

• Original article: High exposure to endotoxin in farming is associated with less new-onset pollen sensitisation (23 August, 2017)

  Grethe Elholm, Vivi Schlünssen, Gert Doekes, Ioannis Basinas, Anneli Clea Skjelmose Bolund, Charlotte Hjort, Pernille Milvang Grønager, Øyvind Omland, Torben Sigsgaard

Environment

• Original article: Exposure to ambient fine particulate matter and semen quality in Taiwan (13 November, 2017)

  Xiang Qian Lao, Zilong Zhang, Alexis K H Lau, Ta-Chien Chan, Yuan Chieh Chuang, Jimmy Chan, Changqing Lin, Cui Guo, Wun Kai Jiang, Tony Tam, Gerard Hoek, Haidong Kan, Eng-kiong Yeoh, Ly-yun Chang

Methodology

• Original article: Correction of odds ratios in case-control studies for exposure misclassification with partial knowledge of the degree of agreement among experts who assessed exposures (31 October, 2017)

  Igor Burstyn, Paul Gustafson, Javier Pintos, Jérôme Lavoué, Jack Siemiatycki