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Species | S MelamedSummaryAffiliation: National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health Country: Israel Publications
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The interactive effect of chronic exposure to noise and job complexity on changes in blood pressure and job satisfaction: a longitudinal study of industrial employeesS Melamed
Department of Occupational Health Psychology, National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, Ra anana, Israel
J Occup Health Psychol 6:182-95. 2001..In contrast, job complexity had a clear beneficial effect for workers exposed to low noise...- Excessive daytime sleepiness and risk of occupational injuries in non-shift daytime workersSamuel Melamed
Occupational Health Psychology Department, National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, Raanana, Israel
Sleep 25:315-22. 2002..This study tested this association in daytime workers using injury data taken from organizational archives... - The joint effect of noise exposure and job complexity on distress and injury risk among men and women: the cardiovascular occupational risk factors determination in Israel studySamuel Melamed
Department of Occupational Health Psychology, National Institute of Occupational Environmental Health, Raanana, Israel
J Occup Environ Med 46:1023-32. 2004..We conclude that the joint exposure to noise and high job complexity is disruptive, resulting in higher distress and occupational injury risk, particularly among women... - Association of fear of terror with low-grade inflammation among apparently healthy employed adultsSamuel Melamed
National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, Raanana, Israel and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Psychosom Med 66:484-91. 2004..This hypothesis was examined in employed men and women with the presence of low-grade inflammation measured by high sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP)... 
Heart rate and microinflammation in men: a relevant atherothrombotic linkO Rogowski
Department of Medicine D and Institute for Special Medical Examinations MALRAM, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Heart 93:940-4. 2007..Such an association could explain, at least in part, the recently described worse cardiovascular prognosis in individuals with increased HR...- The relationships among objective and subjective environmental stress levels and serum uric acid: the moderating effect of perceived controlA Shirom
Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Israel
J Occup Health Psychol 5:374-85. 2000..For male respondents only, perceived control moderated the relationship between ESL and SUA: This relationship was negative for those reporting above-average control and positive for those reporting below-average control... - Increased erythropoiesis and subclinical inflammation as part of the metabolic syndromeT Mardi
Department of Medicine D and Institute for Special Medical Examinations (MALRAM, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Affiliated to Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6 Weizman Street, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 69:249-55. 2005..192, p<0.0005). We conclude that enhanced erythropoiesis could be a new, hitherto unrecognized component of the MS. The enhanced erythropoiesis could give an erroneous impression of general "good" health in these individuals... - Low job satisfaction predicts delayed return to work after laparoscopic cholecystectomyP Froom
National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, Israel
J Occup Environ Med 43:657-62. 2001..85; 95% CI, 1.14 to 12.50). The model was excellent (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, 89.6%). We conclude that low job satisfaction is a major predictor of delayed return to work... 
Assessment of high-sensitivity CRP as a marker of micro-inflammation in irritable bowel syndromeK Hod
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Neurogastroenterol Motil 23:1105-10. 2011..Our aim was to assess whether hs-CRP is higher in IBS patients compared to healthy controls (HC) and does it differ among the IBS clinical subgroups and correlate with disease severity...- Correlation of work structure and job satisfaction among Israeli family physiciansE Kitai
Department of Family Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Isr Med Assoc J 1:236-40. 1999..Physicians need a professional environment that is conducive to efficient and satisfying work. Little has been published about the effect of work structure on the satisfaction that family physicians derive from their work... - Obesity-related correlation between C-reactive protein and the calculated 10-y Framingham Coronary Heart Disease Risk ScoreO Rogowski
Department of Medicine 'D' and Institute for Special Medical Examinations, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Affiliated to Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Int J Obes (Lond) 29:772-7. 2005..We raise the possibility that the addition of BMI to the predictive model of FCRS might attenuate the cost-effectiveness of CRP measurements for this specific risk assessment... - Burnout and risk of type 2 diabetes: a prospective study of apparently healthy employed personsSamuel Melamed
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Psychosom Med 68:863-9. 2006..This prospective study was designed to test the extent to which the onset of type 2 diabetes in apparently healthy individuals was predicted by burnout, a unique affective response to combined exposure to chronic stressors... - Very low C-reactive protein in apparently healthy individuals: physiological status or just a reflection of an improved health profileOri Rogowski
Department of Medicine D and Institute for Special Medical Examinations MALRAM, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Affiliated to Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Biomarkers 12:645-56. 2007..We raise the possibility that this particular low concentration might represent a physiological status and is not necessarily a result of the improved general health profile per se... - Inflammation markers in individuals with history of mental health crisisDan Justo
Department of Internal Medicine D and the Institute for Special Medical Examinations MALRAM, Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weitzman Street, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
Inflammation 31:254-9. 2008..History of mental health crisis might be associated with systemic inflammation in males. This finding may be relevant to the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease in males... - On the nature of burnout-insomnia relationships: a prospective study of employed adultsGalit Armon
Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Psychosom Res 65:5-12. 2008..Burnout is conceptualized as representing individuals' unique affective response to their exposure to chronic stressors... - Effect of school age sports on leisure time physical activity in adults: The CORDIS StudyAllen Kraut
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Med Sci Sports Exerc 35:2038-42. 2003..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of organized childhood sporting activities on LTPA as an adult in a cohort of industrial workers... - Benign hereditary leukopenia-neutropenia does not result from lack of low grade inflammation. A new look in the era of microinflammationShlomo Berliner
Department of Internal Medicine D and Institute for Special Medical Examinations MALRAM, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Affiliated to Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
Blood Cells Mol Dis 34:135-40. 2005..These findings shed more light on the potential mechanisms that are responsible for the low WBCC in this particular ethnic group... - Relation of educational level to inflammation-sensitive biomarker levelArie Steinvil
Department of Internal Medicine D, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Am J Cardiol 102:1034-9. 2008..In conclusion, level of education was inversely associated with inflammatory biomarkers and prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, even within highly educated populations... - Predicting self-reported health: the CORDIS studyPaul Froom
National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Raanana and Sackler Medical School, University of Tel Aviv, Israel
Prev Med 39:419-23. 2004..There have been few attempts to determine factors important in predicting subsequent self-reported health (SRH) in population studies of men or women... - Association of self-reported religiosity and mortality in industrial employees: the CORDIS studyAllen Kraut
Departments of Internal Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Soc Sci Med 58:595-602. 2004..This opposite trend could not be explained by negative sociodemographic and workplace conditions. The possibility of involvement of yet another potent factor of social isolation was discussed... - A prospective study of the association between obesity and burnout among apparently healthy men and womenGalit Armon
Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Occup Health Psychol 13:43-57. 2008..The authors also found that for male respondents with relatively higher levels of Time 1 burnout, the higher their level of Time 1 obesity measure, the lower their level of T2 burnout... - Exposure to and fear of terror as predictors of self-rated health among apparently healthy employeesArie Shirom
Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Br J Health Psychol 13:257-71. 2008..Our findings suggest that living under continuous fear of terror may adversely influence physical health irrespective of objective exposure... - Dry mouth upon awakening in obstructive sleep apneaArie Oksenberg
Sleep Disorders Unit, Loewenstein Hospital Rehabilitation Center, Raanana, Israel
J Sleep Res 15:317-20. 2006..33, 95% CI 1.34-4.07). Dry mouth upon awakening appears as a significant symptom of OSA. We suggest that increased sleep time spent with an open mouth is a likely explanation for these findings... - Burnout and risk of cardiovascular disease: evidence, possible causal paths, and promising research directionsSamuel Melamed
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
Psychol Bull 132:327-53. 2006..The association of burnout and vital exhaustion with these disease mediators suggests that their impact on health may be more extensive than currently indicated... - Lack of significant effect of low doses of aspirin on the concentrations of C-reactive protein in a group of individuals with atherothrombotic risk factors and vascular eventsOri Rogowski
Department of Medicine D and Institute for Special Medical Examinations (MALRAM, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis 17:19-22. 2006..The anti-atherothrombotic activity of this drug is probably not mediated through a significant reduction of the concentration of this protein... - The association between burnout, depression, anxiety, and inflammation biomarkers: C-reactive protein and fibrinogen in men and womenSharon Toker
Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Occup Health Psychol 10:344-62. 2005..Thus, burnout, depression, and anxiety are differentially associated with microinflammation biomarkers, dependent on gender... - Values of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in each month of the year in apparently healthy individualsOri Rogowski
Department of Medicine D and Institute for Special Medical Examinations (MALRAM, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Am J Cardiol 95:152-5. 2005..No seasonal variation was found in a group of 1,677 apparently healthy patients in whom the presence of clinically evident infection or inflammation was excluded by an appropriate questionnaire... - Association of components of the metabolic syndrome with the appearance of aggregated red blood cells in the peripheral blood. An unfavorable hemorheological findingSharon Toker
Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Diabetes Metab Res Rev 21:197-202. 2005..The enhanced aggregation might contribute to capillary slow flow, tissue deoxygenation as well as vasomotor tone changes in the presence of multiple components of this syndrome...