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In 2012, a social issue arose concerning a high incidence of cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) among printing workers. The cause was prolonged exposure to high concentrations of 1,2-dichloropropane that was included in the ink cleaning agent. Until then, it was not known that this substance could cause cancer in humans.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNoise Health
January 2025
MGEN Foundation for Public Health, Paris, France.
Objective: Besides psychosocial stressors, teachers are exposed to disturbing noise at work, such as students' irrelevant speech. Few studies have focused on this issue and its health consequences. We explored occupational noise exposure among teachers within the French workforce and analyzed how noise and work-related stress are related to their health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNoise Health
January 2025
School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Objective: This study investigated the long-term health risks associated with occupational noise exposure. By using 9 years of health examination data from a major manufacturing company in Taiwan, this study compared the health indices of employees in noise-intensive and non-noise-intensive work environments.
Methods: A retrospective analysis of 6278 health examination reports spanning 9 years was conducted to compare 20 health indices among 166 employees evenly distributed between noise-intensive and non-noise-intensive workgroups.
Traffic Inj Prev
January 2025
School of vehicle and mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Objective: Previous research has established the effectiveness of active pretensioning seatbelts (APS), also termed motorized pretensioning seatbelts, in mitigating forward leaning and out-of-position displacement during pre-crash scenarios. In the Chinese market, APS trigger times are typically set later than those reported in the literature. This study investigates the real-world performance of APS systems with delayed trigger times under emergency braking conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlzheimers Dement
December 2024
Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, INSERM, U1237, PhIND "Physiopathology and Imaging of Neurological Disorders", NeuroPresage Team, GIP Cyceron, Caen, France.
Background: Education has been associated with reserve mechanisms and lower dementia risk, but the literature shows inconsistent results on the association between education and brain outcomes across the lifespan. Considering that both dementia risk and education are likely to differ between sexes, our study aims at understanding the association between education and brain outcomes across the lifespan and whether it differs by sex.
Method: In 207 healthy individuals (110women) aged 19-84 years old (47.
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