Table of contents

Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: Lung cancer incidence among Norwegian silicon carbide industry workers: associations with particulate exposure factors (18 May, 2012)

  Merete Drevvatne Bugge, Kristina Kjærheim, Solveig Føreland, Wijnand Eduard, Helge Kjuus
• Original article: Paternal occupation and birth defects: findings from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (9 July, 2012)

  Tania A Desrosiers, Amy H Herring, Stuart K Shapira, Mariëtte Hooiveld, Tom J Luben, Michele L Herdt-Losavio, Shao Lin, Andrew F Olshan, the National Birth Defects Prevention Study
• Original article: Physically demanding work, fetal growth and the risk of adverse birth outcomes. The Generation R Study (27 June, 2012)

  Claudia A Snijder, Teus Brand, Vincent Jaddoe, Albert Hofman, Johan P Mackenbach, Eric A P Steegers, Alex Burdorf
• Original article: Nested case–control study of night shift work and breast cancer risk among women in the Danish military (29 May, 2012)

  Johnni Hansen, Christina F Lassen
• Original article: High lead exposure is associated with telomere length shortening in Chinese battery manufacturing plant workers (26 April, 2012)

  Yixing Wu, Yimin Liu, Na Ni, Bei Bao, Cheng Zhang, Lingeng Lu
• Original article: Increased lung cancer mortality among chrysotile asbestos textile workers is more strongly associated with exposure to long thin fibres (12 May, 2012)

  Dana Loomis, John M Dement, Leslie Elliott, David Richardson, Eileen D Kuempel, Leslie Stayner
• Original article: Business mergers and acquisitions and the risk of mental disorders: a population-based study (6 January, 2012)

  JianLi Wang, Scott Patten, Shawn Currie, Jitender Sareen, Norbert Schmitz
• Original article: Job strain and the risk of disability pension due to musculoskeletal disorders, depression or coronary heart disease: a prospective cohort study of 69 842 employees (9 May, 2012)

  Anne Mäntyniemi, Tuula Oksanen, Paula Salo, Marianna Virtanen, Noora Sjösten, Jaana Pentti, Mika Kivimäki, Jussi Vahtera

Methodology

• Original article: Estimation of benefit of prevention of occupational cancer for comparative risk assessment: methods and examples (10 May, 2012)

  Lukas Jyuhn-Hsiarn Lee, Yu-Yin Chang, Saou-Hsing Liou, Jung-Der Wang

Environment

• Original article: Lack of effect of nitrogen dioxide exposure on heart rate variability in patients with stable coronary heart disease and impaired left ventricular systolic function (12 June, 2012)

  Alison Scaife, Justin Barclay, Graham S Hillis, Janaki Srinivasan, David W Macdonald, John A S Ross, Jon G Ayres