Occupational asthma (OA) is steadily emerging as the principal cause of respiratory disease due to the workplace environment. One of the key means to ascertain diagnosis of OA is specific inhalation challenge (SIC) with occupational agents. This review: 1) describes the methodology of SIC, with a special emphasis on procedures aimed at increasing the safety and validity of these tests; and 2) o...

1Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA 2Department of Sport Sciences with Joint Appointment to Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA 3Biostatistics and Epidemiology Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety a...

From the Department of Occupational Health (K.W.) and the Department of Occupational Mental Health (Y.S., K.T.), Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health (M.T., Y.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Kitasato University, and the Health Promotion Centre, Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (R.N.), Sagamihara, and the Institute for Science of Labour, Ka...

D. Michal FREEDMAN*, Alice SIGURDSON, R. Sowmya RAO, Michael HAUPTMANN, Bruce ALEXANDER, Aparna MOHAN, Michele MORIN DOODY and Martha S. LINET Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Biostatistics Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA Division of Environ...

results high-ranking officials in our study had less work experience in their current jobs and smoked fewer pack-years of cigarette, but they had higher waist and hip circumference, higher triglyceride level, more stress from role overload and responsibility, and higher total stress score. our group of office workers had more occupational stress because of role ambiguity and insufficiency, but ...