Occupational Health among Iranian Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers
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Trauma Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran, 1Occupational Sleep Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 2Department of Occupational Medicine, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran, 3Center for Research on Occupational Diseases, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Correspondence to: Dr. Amir Hossein Naseri Esfahani, Department of Occupational Medicine, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran. E‐mail: [email protected]
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