Publications by authors named "A W Jongmans-Liedekerken"

Objective: To investigate the relation between indoor environmental risk factors and respiratory symptoms in 7-8-year-old children living in the Dutch-German borderland.

Methods: A nested case-control study was conducted among children participating in a large longitudinal study on respiratory health. Parents of all 781 children with respiratory complaints and an equal number of randomly selected controls were asked to complete a questionnaire, including questions on indoor environment.

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Objective: To investigate the influence of an aircraft crash near the South of Limburg, the Netherlands, on the perceived physical and psychological health and annoyance of local residents.

Design: Controlled, blinded, follow-up questionnaire survey.

Method: Three months before an aircraft crash occurred, randomly selected local residents and control subjects who lived approximately 20 km from the crash site were asked to complete a health questionnaire.

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Aim Of The Study: In Westelijke Mijnstreek (WM), Midden-Limburg (ML), both The Netherlands, and Kreis Heinsberg (HS), Germany, the relationship between quality of the indoor environment and respiratory symptoms in children was studied, finally resulting in proposals for prevention of respiratory symptoms in the three regions. This paper presents the results of the first part of the study, investigating prevalences of respiratory complaints.

Methods And Results: A brief questionnaire was used to document prevalences of respiratory complaints, physicians diagnoses and treatment in about 7,000 children 5-6 resp.

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Objective: To determine the incidence of fair eye and its determinants.

Design: Inventory and case referent study.

Method: All general practices (370) in the middle and south of Limburg, the Netherlands, were asked to report patients with a 'faireye' after having visited a fair in this region (population approximately 866,000) in a 6-week period during the late summer of 1997.

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In three patients, men aged 67, 57 and 69 years, malignant pleural mesothelioma was diagnosed. All three had worked as coal miners and were presented with thoracic pain. They were among seven cases of malignant pleural mesothelioma diagnosed in a period of five years in one suburban general practice (adherence: 5600 patients) in the former mining area in the province of Limburg.

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