Tag: Occupational Health
Primary Care Physicians Spend 61.8 Hours/Week Caring for Patient Panel
For a full-time PCP, this translates to a median of 1.7 hours per patient per year
Shift Work Positively Associated With Kidney Stone Events
Potential mediators include smoking, sleep duration, sedentary time, body mass index, and fluid intake
Parents’ Occupational Exposure Tied to Offspring’s Autism Severity
Plastics/polymers were especially associated with multiple developmental and behavioral outcomes
Cognitive Impairment, Work Productivity Loss Linked in Bipolar Disorder
Weak correlation between change in cognitive impairment and change in work productivity loss
Firefighters Face Elevated Mortality Rates for Skin and Kidney Cancer
Suggestive increases for prostate and colorectal cancer mortality observed with more years as a firefighter
Moderate-to-Severe Asthma Up for Female Permanent Night Shift Workers
No corresponding relationship was seen in men; relationship was driven by postmenopausal women not using HRT
Work Context Linked to Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors
Self-employment linked to favorable CVD risk profile among minority and nonminority women
Overwork Tied to Structural Changes in Brains of Health Care Workers
Findings show changes in specific regions of the brain
Stimulant Involvement in Opioid OD Death Higher for Those in Physically Demanding Jobs
Highest percentage of cocaine co-involvement seen in industries that are less physically strenuous
Mutational Signatures Tied to Haloalkane Exposure Are Enriched in Firefighters
Researchers say identifying occupational correlates with variants associated with exposure to haloalkanes may help pinpoint avoidable occupational hazards
