Severely increased albuminuria in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with increased subclinical atherosclerosis in femoral arteries with Na [F]F activity as a proxy - The DETERMINE study.

Background And Aims: Sodium [F]fluoride (Na [F]F) positron emission tomography imaging allows detailed visualization of early arterial micro-calcifications. This study aims to investigate atherosclerosis manifested by micro-calcification, macro-calcification, and aortic stiffness in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with and without albuminuria and severely decreased kidney function.

Methods: A cohort was stratified in four groups (N = 10 per group), based on KDIGO categories (G1-5 A1-3).

[F]FDG and [F]NaF as PET markers of systemic atherosclerosis progression: A longitudinal descriptive imaging study in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Background: While [F]-fluordeoxyglucose ([F]FDG) uptake is associated with arterial inflammation, [F]-sodium fluoride ([F]NaF) is a marker for arterial micro-calcification. We aimed to investigate the prospective correlation between both PET markers over time and whether they are prospectively ([F]FDG) and retrospectively ([F]NaF) related to progression of systemic arterial disease in a longitudinal study in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

Methods: Baseline [F]FDG PET/Low Dose (LD) Computed Tomography (CT) scans of ten patients with early T2DM without cardiovascular history (70% men, median age 63 years) were compared with five-year follow-up [F]NaF/LDCT scans.

Need for recovery in relation to effort from work and health in four occupations.

Objective: To examine three levels of need for recovery (NFR) after work in relation to effort from work demands, demand compensatory strategies, effort-moderating or -reversing resources, and health including health behaviors. A further purpose was to examine occupational characteristics determining NFR.

Methods: 5000 engineers, carpenters, nurses, and home care nurses were invited to participate.

The view and policy of management of occupational health services on the performance of workers' health surveillance: a qualitative exploration.

Background: Although workers' health surveillance is an important preventive activity, it is not regularly performed. In addition to the occupational physician, the management of occupational health services can also be involved in the performance of workers' health surveillance. The present study investigated the view and policy of the managements of occupational health services on the performance of workers' health surveillance by occupational physicians.

Physicians' Perspectives on Person-Related Factors Associated With Work Participation and Methods Used to Obtain Information About These Factors.

Objective: Person-related factors influencing work participation of employees with health problems are important. However, the best method to obtain information about them, according to occupational physicians (OPs) and insurance physicians (IPs), is unknown.

Methods: Questionnaires in which OPs and IPs rated the importance of and described methods to obtain information about 10 person-related factors: expectations regarding recovery or return to work, optimism/pessimism, self-efficacy, motivation, feelings of control, perceived health, coping strategies, fear-avoidance beliefs, perceived work-relatedness, and catastrophizing.

Flight Performance Aspects During Military Helicopter Flights.

A flight is composed of many flight performance aspects. However, not all of these aspects are equally important for the success and safety of a flight. When investigating the influence of a stressor on flight performance, it is important to understand not only which flight performance aspects are important for the success and the safety of the flight, but also which of these aspects will most likely be affected by reduced alertness.

Patients' experiences with a behaviour change intervention to enhance physical activity in primary care: A mixed methods study.

Objective: To explore the experiences of patients at risk for cardiovascular disease in primary care with the Activate intervention in relation to their success in increasing their physical activity.

Methods: A convergent mixed methods study was conducted, parallel to a cluster-randomised controlled trial in primary care, using a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. Questionnaires from 67 patients were analysed, and semi-structured interviews of 22 patients were thematically analysed.

Education as important predictor for successful employment in adults with congenital heart disease worldwide.

Background: Conflicting results have been reported regarding employment status and work ability in adults with congenital heart disease (CHD). Since this is an important determinant for quality of life, we assessed this in a large international adult CHD cohort.

Methods: Data from 4028 adults with CHD (53% women) from 15 different countries were collected by a uniform survey in the cross-sectional APPROACH International Study.

Work ability and work functioning: measuring change in individuals recently returned to work.

Purpose: To assess: (1) whether work ability and work-functioning instruments can detect relevant changes in their respective parameters following a return to work (RTW) and (2) what proportion of those returning to work show changes in their work ability and work functioning.

Methods: A total of 1073 workers who returned to work after at least 2 weeks of sick leave were invited to fill out three questionnaires in the first 8 weeks after RTW. These consisted of an appraisal of general, physical, and mental/emotional work ability (scores 0-10) and a work-functioning questionnaire (scores 0-100).

Effectiveness of a skin care programme for the prevention of contact dermatitis in healthcare workers (the Healthy Hands Project): A single-centre, cluster randomized controlled trial.

Background: Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at risk of developing hand dermatitis (HD). Guidelines recommend moisturizers to prevent HD, but in practice their effectiveness has been poorly investigated.

Objectives: To assess whether an intervention aimed at improving skin care leads to a reduction in HD severity.

Assaying Sorghum for Fuel Production.

The publicly available NREL suite of laboratory analytical procedures (LAPs) provides researchers with the analytical tools to determine the composition of woody and herbaceous feedstocks. Feedstock characterization includes several steps: sample preparation, starch determination, moisture analysis, ashing, extraction, and hydrolysis. These steps provide information on specific compounds and classes of compounds such as ash, protein, moisture, extractives, sucrose, starch, glucan, xylan, galactan, arabinan, acetate and lignin.

Occupational Diseases among Workers in Lower and Higher Socioeconomic Positions.

To determine differences between workers in lower and higher socioeconomic positions (SEP) in incidences of occupational disease (OD) and incapacity for work due to ODs. From a Dutch dynamic prospective cohort of occupational physicians (OPs), ODs assessed by OPs were retrieved for lower and higher SEP groups. Among the lower SEP, musculoskeletal disorders, and noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) comprised two-thirds of the OD diagnoses.

Evaluating the effect of electronic monitoring and feedback on hand cream use in healthcare workers: Healthy Hands Project.

Background: Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at high risk of developing hand dermatitis (HD). Current guidelines on HD prevention recommend the use of emollients; however, in practice, adherence is poor.

Objective: To assess whether the provision of creams, electronic monitoring and feedback on cream consumption can improve skin care in HCWs.

Toward Effective Work Accommodations for Depression: Examining the Relationship Between Different Combinations of Depression Symptoms and Work Productivity Losses.

Objective: Heterogeneity of depression experiences has led to suggestions that interventions focus on depression symptom combinations rather than depression severity alone. Our analyses explore the question, "What is the relationship between different combinations of depression symptoms and work productivity losses?"

Methods: These analyses use a population-based sample of 2219 working adults. Using the PHQ-8 items, cluster analysis methods were used to identify depression symptom clusters.

Evaluation of the effects of two alternative participatory ergonomics intervention strategies for construction companies.

To improve the use of ergonomics tools by construction workers, the effect of two guidance strategies - a face-to-face strategy (F2F) and an e-guidance strategy (EG) - of a participatory ergonomics intervention was studied. Twelve construction companies were randomly assigned to the F2F group or the EG group. The primary outcome measure, the percentage of workers using ergonomics tools, and secondary outcome measures - work ability, physical functioning and limitations due to physical problems - were assessed using surveys at baseline and after 6 months.

Statistical analysis plan for the Healthy Hands Project; single centre cluster-randomised clinical trial of a skin care program for the prevention of contact dermatitis in health care workers.

Background: The Healthy Hands Project (HHP) is a randomised clinical trial aiming to determine the effectiveness of an intervention program in the prevention of hand dermatitis in healthcare workers (HCWs). The intervention is comprised of placing dispensers with hand creams on wards combined with continuous electronic monitoring of cream consumption and regular feedback to HCWs. The clinical severity (HECSI score) was used as the primary outcome and natural moisturising factor (NMF) levels as the secondary outcome.

Specific barrier response profiles after experimentally induced skin irritation in vivo.

Background: Recently, natural moisturizing factors (NMFs) and corneocyte surface topography were suggested as biomarkers for irritant dermatitis.

Objectives: To investigate how exposure to different irritants influences corneocyte surface topography, NMF levels and the barrier function of human skin in vivo.

Methods: Eight healthy adult volunteers were exposed to aqueous solutions of 60% n-propanol, 0.

An intervention that reduces stress in people who combine work with informal care: randomized controlled trial results.

Background: The aim of the research was to examine whether a role-focused self-help course intervention would decrease caregiver stress and distress, and functioning problems, among people who suffer stress because they combine paid work with informal care.

Methods: A pre-registered (NTR 5528) randomized controlled design was applied (intervention vs. wait list control).

Physiological stress response patterns during a blood donation.

Background: Donating blood is associated with increased psychological stress. This study investigates whether a blood donation induces physiological stress and if response patterns differ by gender, donation experience and non-acute stress.

Study Design And Methods: In 372 donors, physiological stress [blood pressure, pulse rate, pulse rate variability (PRV)] was measured at seven moments during routine donation.

The process evaluation of two alternative participatory ergonomics intervention strategies for construction companies.

Unlabelled: To gain insight into the process of applying two guidance strategies - face-to-face (F2F) or e-guidance strategy (EC) - of a Participatory Ergonomics (PE) intervention and whether differences between these guidance strategies occur, 12 construction companies were randomly assigned to a strategy. The process evaluation contained reach, dose delivered, dose received, precision, competence, satisfaction and behavioural change of individual workers. Data were assessed by logbooks, and questionnaires and interviews at baseline and/or after six months.

The influence of risk labeling on risk perception and willingness to seek help in an experimental simulation of preventive medical examinations.

Objective: To study the influence of the presentation of results of a preventive medical examination on risk perception and willingness to seek help for work-related fatigue or being overweight.

Methods: A factorial design experiment was conducted, presenting workers (n = 82) with vignettes including eight scenarios of test results with and without an emphasis on the risk of a current or future health condition or a probe to seek help. Participants rated perceived risk and willingness to seek help (0-100 Visual Analogue Scale) as if these were their own results.

Reproducibility of work ability and work functioning instruments.

Background: Work ability (WA) and work functioning (WF) instruments can be useful in occupational health practice. The reproducibility of both instruments is important to their relevance for daily practice. Clinimetrics concerns the methodological and statistical quality of instruments and their performance in practice.

Within-person fluctuations in wellbeing and task-specific work ability.

Purpose: To research within-person fluctuations in occupational health, work ability and wellbeing, we need new measurement strategies. We studied absolute agreement for weekly measurements of task-specific work ability and relationships between wellbeing, work demands and personal factors and task-specific work ability over time.

Methods: Forty-eight Dutch academic researchers answered questions during 12 consecutive weeks.

Evaluation of a randomized controlled trial on the effect on return to work with coaching combined with light therapy and pulsed electromagnetic field therapy for workers with work-related chronic stress.

Background: Chronic work-related stress is quite prevalent in the working population and is in some cases accompanied by long-term sick leave. These stress complaints highly impact employees and are costly due to lost productivity and medical expenses. A new treatment platform with light therapy plus Pulsed Electro Magnetic Fields (PEMF) in combination with coaching was used to assess whether more positive effects on return to work, stress, work-related fatigue, and quality of life could be induced compared to coaching alone.

Psychological and hormonal stress response patterns during a blood donation.

Background And Objectives: Donating blood has been associated with increased stress responses, with scarce evidence indicating that levels of psychological and hormonal stress are higher pre-donation than post-donation. We investigated whether a blood donation induces psychological and/or hormonal stress during the course of a blood donation, and whether responses differed between men and women, first-time and experienced donors and donors with high or low non-acute stress.

Materials And Methods: In 363 donors, psychological (donation-stress and arousal) and hormonal (cortisol) stress were measured by questionnaire and salivary sample at seven key moments during a routine donation.