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Occupational risk factors

Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology, 2008
The association between exposure to selected chemical carcinogens, occupations or industries and bladder cancer is well established, and it is estimated that 20-27% of bladder cancers are attributable to occupational exposures. The risk of bladder cancer stemming from an occupational exposure depends not only on compound carcinogenicity, exposure ...
George L, Delclos, Seth P, Lerner
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Anaphylaxis as occupational risk

Current Opinion in Allergy & Clinical Immunology, 2014
Anaphylaxis is a severe form of allergic reaction that may cause death. Main triggers of anaphylaxis have been reported to also cause occupational anaphylaxis (OcAn). The purpose of this article was to summarize the current scientific evidence on OcAn and review the specific literature published in 2012 and 2013.Allergens derived from Hymenoptera and ...
Gianna, Moscato, Gianni, Pala, Mariangiola, Crivellaro, Andrea, Siracusa   +3 more
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Quantifying occupational risk: The development of an occupational risk model

Safety Science, 2008
Abstract Each year eighty-five people are killed on the job in the Netherlands and 167,000 are injured to the extent that they are at least a day absent from work. Their death and injuries occur during the approximately seven million person years that the Dutch workforce spend on their job.
Ale, BJM, Baksteen, H, Bellamy, LJ, Bloemhof, A, Goossens, L, Hale, A, Mud, ML, Oh, JIH, Papazoglou, IA, Post, J, Whiston, JY   +10 more
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Occupational Risk

1996
Abstract The risk of acquisition of HIV by health care workers who sustain a needlestick injury or similar percutaneous injury involving HIV-infected blood is currently estimated to be approximately 0.3 percent. Thus, the magnitude of risk of acquiring HIV from a discrete percutaneous exposure is less than the risks associated with ...
W Conrad Liles, Waltere. Stamm
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Zoonoses as occupational risks

Veterinary Record, 2016
AS a third year veterinary student, I am currently carrying out a research project on veterinary perceptions of zoonotic diseases. It is often considered that …
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Occupational risk factors for hypertension

Journal of Hypertension, 2022
The identification and characterization of the modifiable risk factors of hypertension is of great value for public health and clinical medicine to achieve primary prevention. A large amount of literature on the effects of occupational factors on blood pressure and hypertension has been published.
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Risk Taking in Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy In Health Care, 1985
No abstract available for this article.
S M, McFadden, B, Hanschu
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Occupation and Bladder Cancer Risk

American Journal of Epidemiology, 1992
This study examines the estimated risk of bladder cancer associated with various occupations among 1,465 cases identified in Orange County, California, during 1984-1988. The annual age-adjusted incidence rate per 100,000 population in Orange County was similar to that of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program of the National Cancer ...
H, Anton-Culver, A, Lee-Feldstein, T H, Taylor   +2 more
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Synthetic biology and occupational risk

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 2017
Synthetic biology is an emerging interdisciplinary field of biotechnology that involves applying the principles of engineering and chemical design to biological systems. Biosafety professionals have done an excellent job in addressing research laboratory safety as synthetic biology and gene editing have emerged from the larger field of biotechnology ...
John, Howard, Vladimir, Murashov, Paul, Schulte   +2 more
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