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Lore De Raeve, Maastricht University, Department of Epidemiology, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, the Netherlands; lore.deraeve{at}epid.unimaas.nl Objectives: The aim of this prospective study was ...

1 Centre for Public Health Forecasting, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands 2 Centre for Prevention and Health Services Research, National Institute ...

Correspondence to: Dr IJ Kant, Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands; IJ.Kant{at}epid.unimaas.nl In 1998, a large scale prospective cohort ...

OBJECTIVES To compare the relative effects on performance of sleep deprivation and alcohol. METHODS Performance effects were studied in the same subjects over a period of 28 hours of sleep deprivation ...

Aims: To present the available empirical evidence for the assumed position of the concept of work related fatigue as: (1) short term effect of the working day; and (2) an intermediate variable between ...

Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Dr M Medina-Ramón, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, Landmark Center, ...

Background: Low back pain is characterised by a dynamic pattern of episodes and recovery but little is known about the long term course of back pain due to lack of cohort studies with sufficiently ...

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Introduction Job-exposure matrices (JEMs) are being used to assign (quantitative levels of) exposure to individuals based on their job history. In human observational studies, a group-based approach ...

9 Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Nicole AH Janssen, National Institute for Public Health and the ...

1 Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 2 Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National ...