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The prevalence of seasickness in a population of French civilian sailors.
Int Marit Health
October 2024
French Society of Maritime Medicine Brest, F-29200, France, 29200 brest, France.
Background: Motion sickness, is the onset of a series of clinical signs when travelling in a means of locomotion. Boats are the most common source of kinetosis, causing seasickness. Although this condition is often benign, it can severely affect the quality of life of seafarers, as well as the quality of their work.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOccupation and tongue cancer in Nordic countries.
BMC Oral Health
April 2024
Finnish Cancer Registry, Institute for Statistical and Epidemiological Cancer Research, Helsinki, Finland.
Purpose: Almost 200,000 tongue cancers were diagnosed worldwide in 2020. The aim of this study was to describe occupational risk variation in this malignancy.
Methods: The data are based on the Nordic Occupational Cancer (NOCCA) study containing 14.
Mesothelioma among seamen: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Eur J Cancer Prev
September 2024
Forensic Medicine Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia and ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia, Piazzale Spedali Civili 1.
Objectives: Navy personnel and seafarers live and work 24 h per day in the shipboard environment and they are exposed to asbestos fibers released into the confined spaces aboard ships. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to quantify the mesothelioma risk of seamen working aboard ships, either commercial or naval vessels, as compared to that of the general population.
Methods: We carried out a literature search in MEDLINE through PubMed and EMBASE, from inception to 31 December 2021, of all studies on seamen working aboard ships, either commercial or naval vessels, characterized by exposure to asbestos and providing mesothelioma risk estimates.
Asbestos-related cancer in naval personnel: findings from participants in the British nuclear tests 1952-1967.
Sci Rep
November 2023
Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford Old Road Campus, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK.
Asbestos-containing materials (ACM) were present in British and Australian naval vessels throughout the twentieth century. The aim of this study was to identify and quantify the incidence of cancer in naval personnel from onboard asbestos exposure. Subjects were four cohorts of subjects who had served in the armed forces of the United Kingdom and Australia in the 1950s and 1960s.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMesothelioma Risk Among Maritime Workers According to Job Title: Data From the Italian Mesothelioma Register (ReNaM).
Med Lav
October 2023
Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation (DETO), Pathological Anatomy Section, Univer-sity of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
The study describes the 466 cases of malignant mesotheliomas (MM) collected by the National Mesothelioma Register (ReNaM) in Italy in the period 1993-2018 relating to subjects with exclusive asbestos exposure in merchant or military navy. The cases among maritime workers represent 1.8% of the total cases with defined exposure registred in the ReNaM, of which 212 cases (45.
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