Table of contents

Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: Work participation and working life expectancy after a disabling shoulder lesion (30 March, 2019)

  Maria Sirén, Eira Viikari-Juntura, Jari Arokoski, Svetlana Solovieva
• Original article: Effects of occupational exposure to respirable quartz dust on acute myocardial infarction (22 April, 2019)

  Johannes Gellissen, Dagmar Pattloch, Matthias Möhner
• Original article: Alterations in immune and renal biomarkers among workers occupationally exposed to low levels of trichloroethylene below current regulatory standards (10 April, 2019) Free

  Kyoung-Mu Lee, Luoping Zhang, Roel Vermeulen, Wei Hu, Bryan A Bassig, Jason JJ Wong, Chuangyi Qiu, Mark Purdue, Cuiju Wen, Douglas I Walker, Dean P Jones, Laiyu Li, Yongshun Huang, Nathaniel Rothman, Martyn T Smith, Qing Lan
• Original article: Heart rate variability and peripheral nerve conduction velocity in relation to blood lead in newly hired lead workers (30 March, 2019)

  Cai-Guo Yu, Fang-Fei Wei, Wen-Yi Yang, Zhen-Yu Zhang, Blerim Mujaj, Lutgarde Thijs, Ying-Mei Feng, Jan A Staessen
• Original article: Injuries associated with long working hours among employees in the US mining industry: risk factors and adverse outcomes (12 April, 2019)

  Lee S Friedman, Kirsten S Almberg, Robert A Cohen
• Short report: Emerging trends in the UK incidence of occupational asthma: should we be worried? (1 April, 2019)

  Martin J Seed, Melanie Carder, Matthew Gittins, Dil Sen, Annemarie Money, David Fishwick, Chris M Barber, Martie van Tongeren

Exposure assessment

• Original article: The CONSTANCES job exposure matrix based on self-reported exposure to physical risk factors: development and evaluation (31 January, 2019)

  Bradley A Evanoff, Marcus Yung, Skye Buckner-Petty, Johan Hviid Andersen, Yves Roquelaure, Alexis Descatha, Ann Marie Dale

Environment

• Original article: Environmental asbestos exposure in childhood and risk of mesothelioma later in life: a long-term follow-up register-based cohort study (25 February, 2019)

  Sofie Bünemann Dalsgaard, Else Toft Würtz, Johnni Hansen, Oluf Dimitri Røe, Øyvind Omland

Methodology

• Original article: Assessment of the healthy worker survivor effect in the relationship between psychosocial work-related factors and hypertension (13 April, 2019)

  Victoria Kubuta Massamba, Denis Talbot, Alain Milot, Neil Pearce, Xavier Trudel, Chantal Brisson