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Health Behavior, Level of Hemoglobin A1c, and Quality of Life Among Agricultural Workers of Various Ethnicities in Thai Border Communities

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
BackgroundLittle is known about the glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels and quality of life (QoL) in ethnic minority agricultural workers. We investigated the links among health behaviors, HbA1c levels, and QoL ethnic agricultural workers living in rural ...
Sorawit Boonyathee, Parichat Ong-Artborirak, Katekaew Seangpraw, Prakasit Tonchoy, Supakan Kantow, Sasivimol Bootsikeaw, Nisarat Auttama, Monchanok Choowanthanapakorn, Dech Dokpuang, Pitakpong Panta   +9 more
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Lifestyle parameters of Japanese agricultural and non-agricultural workers aged 60 years or older and less than 60 years: A cross-sectional observational study.

PLoS ONE, 2023
ObjectivesImproving the lifestyle of occupational workers is essential for extending healthy life expectancy. We investigated various lifestyle-related items in a rural Japanese population and compared them between agricultural and non-agricultural ...
Fumie Kinoshita, Kei Yoshida, Masaya Fujitani, Yuta Imai, Yumiko Kobayashi, Tomoya Ito, Yuto Okumura, Hiroyuki Sato, Tatsuya Mikami, Songee Jung, Akihiro Hirakawa, Masahiro Nakatochi   +11 more
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Assessment of pesticide residues in blood samples of agricultural workers in Egypt

Journal of Plant Protection Research, 2020
The aim of this study was to monitor pesticide residues in the blood of agricultural workers (farmers, pesticide dealers, and spraying workers) living in the Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt.
Shehata Shalaby, Gehan Abdou
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The impact of heat exposures on biomarkers of AKI and plasma metabolome among agricultural and non-agricultural workers

Environment International, 2023
Background: Agricultural workers are consistently exposed to elevated heat exposures and vulnerable to acute kidney injury. The underlying pathophysiology and detailed molecular mechanisms of AKI among agricultural workers, and the disproportionate ...
Roxana C. Chicas, Yilin Wang, E. Jennifer Weil, Lisa Elon, Nezahualcoyotl Xiuhtecutli, Madelyn C. Houser, Dean P. Jones, Jeff M. Sands, Vicki Hertzberg, Linda McCauley, Donghai Liang   +10 more
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Respiratory illness in agricultural workers [PDF]

Occupational Medicine, 2002
Respiratory diseases have long been recognized in association with work in farming. Overall, only a small proportion of the population is employed in agriculture, so respiratory disease in farmers is not a major public health issue. However, farmers are known to have high morbidity and mortality from certain respiratory diseases, as shown by routinely ...
Linaker, C., Smedley, J.
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Pantoea agglomerans : a mysterious bacterium of evil and good. Part II. Deleterious effects: Dust-borne endotoxins and allergens – focus on grain dust, other agricultural dusts and wood dust

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2015
Pantoea agglomerans , a Gram-negative bacterium developing in a variety of plants as epiphyte or endophyte is particularly common in grain and grain dust, and has been identified by an interdisciplinary group from Lublin, eastern Poland, as a causative ...
Jacek Dutkiewicz, Barbara Mackiewicz, Marta Kinga Lemieszek, Marcin Golec, Czesława Skórska, Anna Góra-Florek, Janusz Milanowski   +6 more
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Creatinine Fluctuations Forecast Cross-Harvest Kidney Function Decline Among Sugarcane Workers in Guatemala

Kidney International Reports, 2020
Background: Chronic kidney disease of unknown origin (CKDu) is an epidemic that disproportionately affects young agriculture workers in hot regions. It has been hypothesized that repeated acute kidney injury (AKI) may play a role in the development of ...
Miranda Dally, Jaime Butler-Dawson, Richard J. Johnson, Lyndsay Krisher, Diana Jaramillo, Kira L. Newman, Lee S. Newman   +6 more
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How to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in the Agri-Food Industry during the First Pandemic Wave: Effects on Seroprevalence

Applied Sciences, 2021
During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, many workplaces were forced to interrupt their activities or alternatively had to prefer a smart way of working, if this was compatible with their activities, to contain the spread of the virus. Some production activities,
Ermanno Vitale, Francesca Vella, Veronica Filetti, Luigi Cirrincione, Giuliano Indelicato, Emanuele Cannizzaro, Venerando Rapisarda   +6 more
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COVID-19 outbreak among temporary foreign workers in British Columbia, March to May 2020

Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2021
Background: During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, temporary foreign workers (TFWs) provided a critical role to maintaining the food supply in Canada, yet workers faced a number of challenges that made them particularly vulnerable to ...
Silvina Mema, Gillian Frosst, Kristen Hanson, Cheryl Yates, Amanda Anderson, Jennifer Jacobsen, Caroline Guinard, America Lima, Tannis Andersen, Melissa Roe   +9 more
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Paper versus Practice: Occupational Health and Safety Protections and Realities for Temporary Foreign Agricultural Workers in Ontario [PDF]

, 2014
Over 20,000 temporary foreign agricultural workers come to Ontario each year, primarily from Mexico and the Caribbean. Agricultural workers are exposed to a number of occupational health and safety (OHS) risks.
Haines, Ted, Hennebry, Jenna, McLaughlin, Janet   +2 more
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