The Association Between Employment in Coal Mining and History of Injury, Current Pain, and Prescription Opioid Use.

Background: Coal mining involves heavy physical demand, which is associated with increased risk of injury and long-term musculoskeletal health disorders and chronic pain. Management of chronic or recurrent pain is in turn associated with prescription opioid use and risk of opioid use disorder (OUD).

Methods: We analyzed clinical data from 5463 coal miners evaluated between 2004 and 2015.

Prostate Cancer Screening and Diagnoses in the Transfeminine Population.

Objective: To examine the frequency and rate at which transfeminine patients receive prostate-specific antigen testing compared to a matched cisgender cohort.

Methods: Patients with prostates who had encounters in our health system, are currently age 46 or older, and who are alive were included in our study. Transfeminine patients were identified through diagnosis codes and chart review.

Association Between Employment Factors and Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease in US Law Enforcement Workers: The National Health Interview Survey, 2006-2018.

Background: Law enforcement workers face a higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), however, employment factors impacting CVD remain systematically understudied, particularly in a national US sample. We describe temporal trends in prevalent CVD including coronary heart disease (CHD), angina, myocardial infarction (MI) and other heart disease; and investigate associations of select employment factors with CVD among law enforcement workers using the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) from 2006 to 2018.

Methods: We analyzed prevalent CVD in law enforcement workers employed in local, state, and federal establishments using the NHIS, a nationally representative sample of US workers.