1 Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Municipal Institute of Medical Research, Barcelona, Spain. 2 Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. 3 Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Chemical and Environmental Research (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain. 4 Department of Preventive M...

Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA and Department of Human Anatomy, Pharmacology and Forensic Sciences, Univers...

Claudia M. Denkinger, Ioana Nicolau, Andrew Ramsay, Pamela Chedore and Madhukar Pai Division of Infectious Disease, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. McGill International TB Centre and Dept of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, and Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Montreal Chest Institute, Montreal, Mon...

Karen R Steingart, Andrew Ramsay and Madhukar Pai Author for correspondence Deptartment of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health, McGill University, Respiratory Epidemiology & Clinical Research Unit, Montréal Chest Institute, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Montréal H3A 1A2, Canada Tel.: +1 514 398 5422 Fax: +1 514 398 4503 [email protected] Expert Rev. Anti Infect. Ther. 5(3), 327–331 ...

Affiliations: Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Dept of Biomedical Sciences – University of Sassari – Research, Medical Education and Professional Development Unit, AOU Sassari, Italy. Max Planck Society, General Administration, Munich, Germany. World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Care and Research Institute,...

The contribution of workplace exposures to the prevalence of asthma in adults has been minimized in the epidemiology of this illness. Analysis of the 1978 Social Security Disability Survey provides a population-based assessment as a novel approach utilizing self-attributed, occupationally related asthma as a measure of disease. Of 6,063 respondents, 468 (7.7 percent) identified asthma as a pers...

The concept of causality is reviewed with special emphasis on occupational diseases. Separate approaches from the philosophical, scientific, and legal points of view are identified. There is controversy over the methodology of logical causality; inductive and deductive methods are described and reference is made to the verification or refutation approach. Application of the methods to epidemiol...

1 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 2 Division of Epidemiology and Biometrics, School of Public Health, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 3 Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 4 STUK-Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Helsinki, Finland. 5 Tampere School of Public Health, University o...

1College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan Province, China 2Computational Medicine Research Group, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu and Biocenter Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, 90014 University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 3NMRMetabonomics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, University of Eastern Finland, 70211 Kuop...