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Original articles

Environment

• Original article: Short-term effects of particulate matter on mortality during forest fires in Southern Europe: results of the MED-PARTICLES Project (17 February, 2015)

  Annunziata Faustini, Ester R Alessandrini, Jorge Pey, Noemi Perez, Evangelia Samoli, Xavier Querol, Ennio Cadum, Cinzia Perrino, Bart Ostro, Andrea Ranzi, Jordi Sunyer, Massimo Stafoggia, Francesco Forastiere, the MED-PARTICLES study group

Workplace

• Original article: Varicose veins in the lower extremities in relation to occupational mechanical exposures: a longitudinal study (9 January, 2015)

  Sorosh Tabatabaeifar, Poul Frost, Johan Hviid Andersen, Lone Donbæk Jensen, Jane Frølund Thomsen, Susanne Wulff Svendsen
• Original article: Effect of summer outdoor temperatures on work-related injuries in Quebec (Canada) (24 January, 2015)

  Ariane Adam-Poupart, Audrey Smargiassi, Marc-Antoine Busque, Patrice Duguay, Michel Fournier, Joseph Zayed, France Labrèche
• Original article: Relationship between urinary concentrations of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) metabolites and reproductive hormones in polyvinyl chloride production workers (30 January, 2015)

  Jer-Pei Fong, Fang-Jin Lee, I-Syuan Lu, Shi-Nian Uang, Ching-Chang Lee
• Original article: Occupational exposure to diesel engine exhaust and alterations in lymphocyte subsets (11 February, 2015)

  Qing Lan, Roel Vermeulen, Yufei Dai, Dianzhi Ren, Wei Hu, Huawei Duan, Yong Niu, Jun Xu, Wei Fu, Kees Meliefste, Baosen Zhou, Jufang Yang, Meng Ye, Xiaowei Jia, Tao Meng, Ping Bin, Christopher Kim, Bryan A Bassig, H Dean Hosgood, Debra Silverman, Yuxin Zheng, Nathaniel Rothman
• Original article: Extended follow-up of lung cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease mortality among California diatomaceous earth workers (10 March, 2015)

  Lisa G Gallagher, Robert M Park, Harvey Checkoway
• Original article: Does retirement reduce the risk of mental disorders? A national registry-linkage study of treatment for mental disorders before and after retirement of 245 082 Danish residents (26 March, 2015)

  Kasper Olesen, Naja Hulvej Rod, Ida E H Madsen, Jens Peter Bonde, Reiner Rugulies
• Original article: A cohort incidence study of workers exposed to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) (19 January, 2015)

  Kyle Steenland, Liping Zhao, Andrea Winquist