Occupational and environmental medicine

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Occup Environ Med · Mar 2014

Contribution of health status and prevalent chronic disease to individual risk for workplace injury in the manufacturing environment.

An 'information gap' has been identified regarding the effects of chronic disease on occupational injury risk. We investigated the association of ischaemic heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, depression and asthma with acute occupational injury in a cohort of manufacturing workers from 1 January 1997 through 31 December 2007. ⋯ Our results suggest that chronic heart disease, diabetes and depression confer an increased risk for acute occupational injury.

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Occup Environ Med · Mar 2014

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Chronic diseases and individual risk for workplace injury.

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