ArticleOccupational and environmental medicine2020
Occupational exposure to whole-body vibrations and pregnancy complications: a nationwide cohort study in Sweden.
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- Towards the Development of a Conceptual Framework of the Determinants of Pre-Eclampsia: A Hierarchical Systematic Review of Social Determinants.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2026Pooled it
- Occupational Risk Factors and Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Integrating a life course perspective in work environment and health research: empirical challenges and interdisciplinary opportunities.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2024Article
- Physical exposures in the work environment during pregnancy - a challenge for risk assessment.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2023Article
- Prevalence of Reproductive Health Issues among US Female Law Enforcement Officers.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Women's Employment in Industries and Risk of Preeclampsia and Gestational Diabetes: A National Population Study of Republic of Korea.Safety and health at work · 2023Article
- Effects of whole-body vibration on reproductive physiology in a rat model of whole-body vibration.Journal of toxicology and environmental health. Part A · 2022Article
- Applying the exposome concept to working life health: The EU EPHOR project.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesPregnancy complications are common contributors to perinatal mortality and morbidity. Still, the cause(s) of gestational hypertensive disorders and diabetes are largely unknown. Some occupational exposures have been inconsistently associated with pregnancy complications, but exposure to whole-body vibrations (WBV) has been largely overlooked even though it has been associated with adverse birth outcomes. Therefore, the aim was to assess whether occupational WBV exposure during pregnancy is associated with pregnancy complications in a nationwide, prospective cohort study.
methodsThe Fetal Air Pollution Exposure cohort was formed by merging multiple Swedish, national registers containing information on occupation during pregnancy and diagnosis codes, and includes all working women who gave birth between 1994 and 2014 (n=1 091 044). WBV exposure was derived from a job-exposure matrix and was divided into categories (0, 0.1-0.2, 0.3-0.4 and ≥0.5 m/s
resultsAmong women working full time (n=646 490), we found increased risks of all pregnancy complications in the highest exposure group (≥0.5 m/s
conclusionsThe results suggest that women should not be exposed to WBV at/above the action limit value of 0.5 m/s
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