ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2015
General population job exposure matrix applied to a pooled study of prevalent carpal tunnel syndrome.
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- Cross-national comparison of two general population job exposure matrices for physical work exposures.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2019Article
- The CONSTANCES job exposure matrix based on self-reported exposure to physical risk factors: development and evaluation.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2019Article
- Work-related neck and upper limb disorders - quantitative exposure-response relationships adjusted for personal characteristics and psychosocial conditions.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2019Article
- Long-term exposure to heavy physical work, disability pension due to musculoskeletal disorders and all-cause mortality: 20-year follow-up-introducing Helsinki Health Study job exposure matrix.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2019Article
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- Incident CTS in a large pooled cohort study: associations obtained by a Job Exposure Matrix versus associations obtained from observed exposures.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2018Article
- Estrogen and mechanical loading-related regulation of estrogen receptor-β and apoptosis in tendinopathy.PloS one · 2018Article
- Role of maternal occupational physical activity and psychosocial stressors on adverse birth outcomes.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2017Article
- Postoffer Pre-Placement Screening for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Newly Hired Manufacturing Workers.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2016Article
- Data linkage between the National Birth Defects Prevention Study and the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) to assess workplace physical activity, sedentary behaviors, and emotional stressors during pregnancy.American journal of industrial medicine · 2016Article
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Abstract
A job exposure matrix may be useful for the study of biomechanical workplace risk factors when individual-level exposure data are unavailable. We used job title-based exposure data from a public data source to construct a job exposure matrix and test exposure-response relationships with prevalent carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Exposures of repetitive motion and force from the Occupational Information Network were assigned to 3,452 active workers from several industries, enrolled between 2001 and 2008 from 6 studies. Repetitive motion and force exposures were combined into high/high, high/low, and low/low exposure groupings in each of 4 multivariable logistic regression models, adjusted for personal factors. Although force measures alone were not independent predictors of CTS in these data, strong associations between combined physical exposures of force and repetition and CTS were observed in all models. Consistent with previous literature, this report shows that workers with high force/high repetition jobs had the highest prevalence of CTS (odds ratio = 2.14-2.95) followed by intermediate values (odds ratio = 1.09-2.27) in mixed exposed jobs relative to the lowest exposed workers. This study supports the use of a general population job exposure matrix to estimate workplace physical exposures in epidemiologic studies of musculoskeletal disorders when measures of individual exposures are unavailable.
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