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Exposure to pesticides, ill-health and averting behaviour: Costs and determining the relationships [PDF]

Farmers\' exposure to pesticides is high in developing countries. As a result they suffer from ill-health, both short and long term. Deaths are not uncommon.
Clevo Wilson
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Poultry production chain: where is the highest occupational threat? [PDF]

, 2015
Introduction: Poultry farmers are occupationally exposed to many respiratory hazards, being the two most reported the fungal burden and particles. Besides poultries, we also must consider poultry slaughterhouses, since it may confine the same exposure ...
Gomes, Anita Quintal, Malta-Vacas, Joana, Sabino, Raquel, Viegas, Carla, Viegas, Susana   +4 more
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Workplace secondhand smoke exposure in the U.S. trucking industry. [PDF]

, 2010
BackgroundAlthough the smoking rate in the United States is declining because of an increase of smoke-free laws, among blue-collar workers it remains higher than that among many other occupational groups.ObjectivesWe evaluated the factors influencing ...
Chiu, Yueh-Hsiu, Dockery, Douglas W, Garshick, Eric, Hammond, S Katharine, Hart, Jaime E, Laden, Francine, Smith, Thomas J, Spiegelman, Donna   +7 more
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Occupational Exposure [PDF]

, 2013
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Newport, Sam
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An Assessment of Surface Contamination and Dermal Exposure to 5-Fluorouracil in Healthcare Settings by UPLC-MS/MS Using a New Atmospheric Pressure Ionization Source

Toxics
5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) is a well-known cytostatic drug, which is often used in cancer treatments. Yet, it is also a very dangerous compound for people who are occupationally exposed to it for a long time, such as pharmacy employees, nurses and cleaning ...
Matteo Creta, Eline Verscheure, Birgit Tans, Herman Devriese, An Devriendt, David Devolder, Robin Lebegge, Katrien Poels, Lode Godderis, Radu-Corneliu Duca, Jeroen A. J. Vanoirbeek   +10 more
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08 | Cutaneous melanoma and occupational UV exposure: associations with anatomical site, histological subtype, and Breslow thickness

Dermatology Reports
Background: The relationship between occupational sun exposure and melanoma risk is complex and multifactorial, with conflicting evidence in the literature.
Italian Melanoma Intergroup
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An Unjustified Prognosis of the Number of Asbestos-Related Lung Cancer Cases Caused by an Increase in Airborne Asbestos Concentrations as a Result of Removing of Asbestos-Cement Products

The Scientific World Journal, 2015
Neonila Szeszenia-Dąbrowska, Beata Świątkowska   +1 more
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Acute life-threatening extrinsic allergic alveolitis in a paint controller [PDF]

, 2017
Background Occupational diisocyanate-induced extrinsic allergic alveolitis (EAA) is a rare and probably underestimated diagnosis. Two acute occupational EAA cases have been described in this context, but neither of them concerned hexamethylene ...
Bieler, G., Danuser, B., Huynh, C. K., Steiner, U.-C, Thorn, D., Tomicic, C., Yawalkar, N.   +6 more
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Occupational exposure and asthma [PDF]

Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 2018
Anh, Dao, David I, Bernstein
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Using job-title-based physical exposures from O*NET in an epidemiological study of carpal tunnel syndrome [PDF]

, 2014
OBJECTIVE: We studied associations between job title based measures of force and repetition and incident carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). BACKGROUND: Job exposure matrices (JEMs) are not commonly used in studies of work-related upper extremity disorders ...
Dale, Ann Marie, Evanoff, Bradley A, Franzblau, Alfred, Zeringue, Angelique   +3 more
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