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Obesity
New obesity findings from E.S. Soteriades and co-researchers published
July 15th, 2008
" Obesity is a major public health problem and a workplace epidemic in Western societies. However, little is known about the association between obesity and job disability in specific occupational groups," investigators in Nicosia, Cyprus report. " To examine the association between obesity and risk of job disability among firefighters. A prospective cohort study design was employed in following 358 Massachusetts firefighters enrolled in a statewide medical surveillance program. We prospectively evaluated time to development of adverse employment outcomes > 6 years of follow-up. In multivariable-adjusted Cox proportional hazard models, we found that every one-unit...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-07-15)
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