Effect of school age sports on leisure time physical activity in adults: The CORDIS Study.

Purpose: Data evaluating the impact of various types of childhood physical activity on adult leisure time physical activity (LTPA) are inconsistent. 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.

Methods: The frequency of current LTPA, defined as a half hour or more of activity at least once per week, of 3687 industrial workers in the Cardiovascular Occupational Risk Factors in Israel Study (CORDIS) cohort was the outcome variable.

Association of self-reported religiosity and mortality in industrial employees: the CORDIS study.

This study examined the association between self-reported religiosity and mortality in industrial employees, while controlling for workplace and socioeconomic factors. Subjects were 3638 Jewish Israeli males who participated in a 12-year follow-up study. During this period 253 deaths were recorded.

Risk for early ischemic event after acute myocardial infarction in working males.

We attempt to predict ischemic events in the weeks following the hospital discharge after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in order to aid occupational physicians in taking return-to-work decisions. Included in the study were 1299 AMI patients from 14 coronary care units in Israel who had been employed before hospitalization and were seen after discharge 1, 2, 4, 6, 9 and 12 months after the first AMI. Cardiovascular accidents included death from cardiovascular disease, recurrent infarction or hospitalization due to congestive heart failure or unstable angina.

Low job satisfaction predicts delayed return to work after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

We studied 102 consecutive employed patients treated by elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy to determine job characteristics and psychological factors that predict delay in return to work after their procedure. Median sick leave was 13 days, and five variables significantly added to a model predicting sick leave of at least 20 days (31.4% of the workers): low job satisfaction (odds ratio [OR], 12.

Smoking cessation and body mass index of occupationally active men: the Israeli CORDIS Study.

Objectives: This study estimated weight gain after smoking cessation and identified factors attenuating this gain.

Methods: We conducted a prospective follow-up of 1209 male factory workers for 2 to 4 years. The independent variables were smoking habits.