ArticleMMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report2017
Mortality from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Parkinson's Disease Among Different Occupation Groups - United States, 1985-2011.
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- Parkinson's disease and occupational exposure to organic solvents in Finland: a nationwide case-control study.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2024Article
- From Recognition to Remedy: The Significance of Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Disease Pathology.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Occupational history associates with ALS survival and onset segment.Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration · 2023Article
- High intelligence may exacerbate paediatric inflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2 infection.Medical hypotheses · 2021Article
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Risk, Family Income, and Fish Consumption Estimates of Mercury and Omega-3 PUFAs in the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Solvent exposed occupations and risk of Parkinson disease in Finland.Clinical parkinsonism & related disorders · 2021Article
- Demographic considerations in analyzing decedents by usual occupation.American journal of industrial medicine · 2020Article
- Occupational pesticide exposure and the risk of death in patients with Parkinson's disease: an observational study in southern Brazil.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2020Observational
- Effect of family history, occupation and diet on the risk of Parkinson disease: A case-control study.PloS one · 2020Article
- Contributions of VPS35 Mutations to Parkinson's Disease.Neuroscience · 2019Review
- A perceptive plus in Parkinson's disease.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2018Article
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Abstract
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson's disease, both progressive neurodegenerative diseases, affect >1 million Americans (1,2). Consistently reported risk factors for ALS include increasing age, male sex, and cigarette smoking (1); risk factors for Parkinson's disease include increasing age, male sex, and pesticide exposure, whereas cigarette smoking and caffeine consumption are inversely associated (2). Relative to cancer or respiratory diseases, the role of occupation in neurologic diseases is much less studied and less well understood (3). CDC evaluated associations between usual occupation and ALS and Parkinson's disease mortality using data from CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) National Occupational Mortality Surveillance (NOMS), a population-based surveillance system that includes approximately 12.1 million deaths from 30 U.S. states.* Associations were estimated using proportionate mortality ratios (PMRs), standardizing indirectly by age, sex, race, and calendar year to the standard population of all NOMS deaths with occupation information. Occupations associated with higher socioeconomic status (SES) had elevated ALS and Parkinson's disease mortality. The shifts in the U.S. workforce toward older ages and higher SES occupations
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