… CC h Israel 93 PD patients No age information 93 age/sex matched SR-E/N Occ/Non-Occ
P Smoking, birth country, peptic disease, work in construction or in mechanical factory — …

Environmental exposure to chemicals and metals may contribute to the risk of sporadic
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Two systematic reviews of the literature on these topics …

Background Suicide using pesticides as agent is recognized as a major cause of pesticide
poisoning. Methods A literature review of mortality and morbidity studies related to suicide …

OBJECTIVES To construct a computer assisted information system for the estimation of the
numbers of workers exposed to established and suspected human carcinogens in the …

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major cause of morbidity
and mortality. Although the main risk factor is smoking, 15–19% of COPD even in smokers …

… Hans Kromhout did industral hygiene assessment and developed the job-exposure matrix.
Peter Burney, principal investigator of the ECRHS, took part in all phases of study design and …

Background The role of exposure to substances in the workplace in new-onset asthma is not
well characterised in population-based studies. We therefore aimed to estimate the relative …

… Two of the authors (H. Kromhout and SM Rappaport) independently judged the goodness
of fit of the ANOVA model for each of the groups and excluded either a worker or an individual …

Rationale: Cleaning work and professional use of certain cleaning products have been
associated with asthma, but respiratory effects of nonprofessional home cleaning have rarely …

Following the adoption of new international sampling conventions for inhalable, thoracic
and respirable aerosol fractions, a working group of Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN) …