Andrea t Mannetje

..A new nationwide case-control study was conducted to assess whether previously observed associations persist and to identify other occupations that may contribute to the risk of NHL in the New Zealand population...

..Furthermore such studies may shed light on compound specific factors as well as other determinants that may affect the partitioning and partition kinetics of POPs between serum and breast milk...

..Given that welding remains a common task for many workers, exposure to welding fumes represents an important risk factor for lung cancer...

..The objective of this study was to make quantitative estimates of the annual number of deaths from work-related disease and injury in New Zealand, as well as estimate the number of incident cases of work-related disease and injury...

..To evaluate mortality in New Zealand phenoxy herbicide producers and sprayers exposed to dioxins...

..We investigated whether these findings are likely to be due to chance, confounding or publication bias, or may involve causal associations...

..Study the determinants of non-response and the potential for non-response bias in a New Zealand survey of occupational exposures and health...

..To study the association between occupational exposure to metals including chromium, cadmium, nickel, and arsenic compounds, within a population-based study design, while adjusting for confounding factors...

..This study aimed to examine whether farm exposures in childhood contribute to these risks, by using parental occupation in farming as a proxy for growing up on a farm...

..6% of the New Zealand workforce is occupationally exposed to wood dust, corresponding to a total of 97 000 workers (86% male and 14% female). Construction-related occupations included the largest number of exposed workers...

..There are many proven and suspected occupational causes of lung cancer, which will become relatively more important over time, as smoking prevalence decreases...

..To examine the association between occupation and leukaemia...

..We assessed the association between work-related stress and asthma in a cross-sectional workforce survey in New Zealand...

..From 1950 to 1990 pentachlorophenol (PCP) was used widely in the New Zealand sawmill industry, and persistent claims of long-term health effects have been made...

..To evaluate mortality and cancer incidence in a cohort of workers employed in the New Zealand pulp and paper industry, and to identify the exposures responsible for any increased risk...

..They are also consistent with some preliminary evidence associating paracetamol use with an increased risk of asthma. Any protective effect of notifiable childhood infections was weak...

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..In phase III the phase I survey was repeated in order to assess changes over time...

..However, it is also important to attempt to assess the likely direction and strength of biases that cannot be avoided or controlled...

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..To investigate differences in breast cancer prognostic factors between ethnic and socioeconomic groups in New Zealand...

..Attempts to control diabetes in a vacuum without reference to socioeconomic and political context is a convenient vehicle that has contributed to and will continue to fuel calories to the diabetes epidemic...

..We investigated the association of comorbidity with cervical cancer survival, and whether comorbidity accounted for the previously observed ethnic differences in survival...

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..To investigate the differences in occupational exposure between Māori (New Zealand's indigenous people) and non-Māori...

..We report here the findings on occupational risk factors for asthma symptoms...

..This study examines the prevalence of a range of occupational risk factors reported by a random sample of the New Zealand working population...

..Phase III of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood measured the global prevalence of symptoms of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema in children...

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..To investigate ethnic, socioeconomic, and urban/rural differences in stage at diagnosis and cervical cancer survival in New Zealand...

..To determine whether lung function alters asthma severity based on symptom history in asthmatic adolescents...

..To examine associations between A1C concentration and mortality in a New Zealand population...

..Serum dioxin levels in former New Zealand sawmill workers remain elevated twenty years after exposure to PCP ceased, and reflect the pattern of past PCP exposure...

..To describe patterns of excess mortality among patients with diabetes in three ethnic groups...

..To examine regional patterns of asthma hospitalisations in Maori and non-Maori...

..Stage at diagnosis accounted for only part of these differences. Possible factors responsible for ethnic inequalities might include access to specialized cancer services and the quality of care received...

..We have conducted an ecologic analysis of the relationship between antibiotics sales and the prevalence of symptoms of asthma, allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, and atopic eczema in 99 centres from 28 countries...

..Observational studies and randomized trials to test this hypothesis could ultimately lead to the development of novel treatments for atopic diseases, such as allergic asthma, hay fever, and eczema...

..For these reasons, the prevalence odds ratio will continue to be one of the standard methods for analyzing prevalence studies and prevalence case-control studies...

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..We use 2 approaches to health service development to demonstrate how Maori-led initiatives are seeking to improve access to and quality of health care for Maoris...

..Farmers may also have exposure to oncogenic viruses carried by farm animals, and studies of slaughterhouse workers and meat inspectors have found increased risks of NHL...

..The objective was to repeat these analyses for 1995-97 in order to examine time trends, and to assess current social class patterns of mortality...

..PRACTITIONER SUMMARY: Strategies to prevent or reduce LBS should focus on reducing exposure to awkward or tiring positions at work, improving contact and cooperation with management, and reducing stressful jobs, especially for females...

..The results of studies of hematologic cancers have been less consistent, but they suggest a small excess risk for leukemia in association with similar exposures...

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..These symptoms may be due to formaldehyde exposure, although a potential causal role for other exposures cannot be excluded...

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..In particular, we sought to compare trends in tumour rates in anatomical sites that receive high, medium and low levels of cellular telephone radiation (based on dosimetry data)...

..Although residual confounding may have occurred, our results suggest that occupational exposure to SO(2) in the pulp and paper industry may be associated with an increased risk of lung cancer...

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..This investigation uses data from 1996-97 to update previous studies of social class mortality differences in Maori and non-Maori New Zealand men aged 15-64 years...

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..To investigate time trends in prevalence of symptoms of asthma by repeating, during 2001-3 (Phase Three), the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) Phase One study that was conducted in New Zealand in 1992-3...

..In addition we have commenced regional training on cancer epidemiology and propose further cancer studies in both New Zealand and the Pacific Islands...

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..Particular attention was paid to estimating the amount and direction of potential recall and participation biases and their impact on the study results...

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..To evaluate the New Zealand evidence for three theories of population health change: compression of morbidity, expansion of morbidity, and dynamic equilibrium...

..Further studies are needed to determine the reasons for these apparent differences in asthma severity...

..This study investigates whether work-related respiratory symptoms and acute falls in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), previously observed in current welders, are related to measured workplace exposures to total fume and metals...

..As with many other types of birth cohort study, the participants are a self-selected sample. To minimise selection bias analyses should therefore be limited to internal comparisons...

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..There is increasing interest in the potential influence of fetal and early life conditions on childhood wheezing...

..The observed trends are unlikely to be explained by random variation, changes in exhaustiveness or quality of data collection and registration...

..We hope to stimulate further applications through this presentation...

..In this paper, we report on a research in which we applied these methods to a case-control study of occupational risk factors for lung cancer and tested their performance...

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..For future research on the prevalence and possible increase of atopic rhinitis, it seems to be of major importance to differentiate between atopic and other forms of rhinitis...

..This large study conducted by an international team of expert collaborators will provide sufficient study power to reach the outlined aims and contribute to the knowledge of the etiology of NHL. ..