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Original research

Workplace

• Original research: Impact of occupational asthma on health and employment status: a long-term follow-up study (29 December, 2022)

  Paola Mason, Filippo Liviero, Eleonora Rachele Paccagnella, Marco Biasioli, Piero Maestrelli, Anna Chiara Frigo
• Original research: Firefighter occupational factors and the risk of preterm birth: results from a survey of women firefighters in the USA (23 December, 2022)

  Alesia M Jung, Sara A Jahnke, Leslie K Dennis, Melanie L Bell, Jefferey L Burgess, Leslie V Farland
• Original research: Malignant mesothelioma among US Medicare beneficiaries: incidence, prevalence and therapy, 2016–2019 (12 January, 2023) Free

  Laura Kurth, Jacek M Mazurek, David J Blackley
• Short report: Assessing the relationship between hypospadias risk and parental occupational exposure to potential endocrine-disrupting chemicals (26 December, 2022)

  Deepjyoti Das, Hemonta Kumar Dutta, Debasish Borbora, Rocket Chandra Brahma, Jitu Mani Das
• Original research: What role for asbestos in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis? Findings from the IPF job exposures case–control study (12 January, 2023)

  Carl J Reynolds, Rupa Sisodia, Chris Barber, Miriam Moffatt, Cosetta Minelli, Sara De Matteis, John W Cherrie, Anthony Newman Taylor, Paul Cullinan

Exposure assessment

• Original research: Development of a job-exposure matrix (JEM) for exposure to smoke particle mass among firefighters of the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) (12 January, 2023)

  David G Goldfarb, David J Prezant, Rachel Zeig-Owens, Theresa Schwartz, Yang Liu, Ilias G Kavouras

Environment

• Original research: Cross-sectional associations of different types of nature exposure with psychotropic, antihypertensive and asthma medication (16 January, 2023)

  Anu W Turunen, Jaana Halonen, Kalevi Korpela, Ann Ojala, Tytti Pasanen, Taina Siponen, Pekka Tiittanen, Liisa Tyrväinen, Tarja Yli-Tuomi, Timo Lanki