Cancer and noncancer mortality among American seafood workers.

Background: Few studies have investigated mortality in seafood workers worldwide, and no such study has been conducted in the United States. The objective of this study was to investigate mortality in American seafood workers.

Methods: The study population was derived from 4 states and consisted of 4116 subjects who worked mainly in seafood processing plants.

The association of the metabolic syndrome with T-wave axis deviation in NHANES III.

Purpose: We sought to study the association between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and abnormal T-wave axis deviation.

Methods: A representative sample of the adult U.S.

Consumption of different types of meat and the risk of renal cancer: meta-analysis of case-control studies.

Background: Kidney cancers account for almost 2% of all cancers worldwide, with 150,000 new cases and 78,000 deaths from the disease occurring annually. An increase in the incidence of kidney neoplasm in western countries was noticed in the past few years. Between 1988 and 1992, the incidence of renal cancer per 100,000 person-year among males in USA, Norway, and France was 34.