Carpal tunnel syndrome and its relation to occupation: a systematic literature review (2007)
Palmer, Keith T., Harris, E. Clare, Coggon, David
Objectives To assess occupational risk factors for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), we conducted a systematic literature review. Methods We identified relevant primary research from two major reviews in...
Compensating occupationally related tenosynovitis and epicondylitis: a literature review (2007)
Palmer, Keith T., Harris, E. Clare, Coggon, David
OBJECTIVES: To assess occupational associations with tenosynovitis and epicondylitis, we conducted a systematic literature review. We focused particularly on evidence that might support compensation...
Palmer, Keith T., Reading, Isabel, Calnan, Michael, Linaker, Catherine, Coggon, David
OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether knee pain in the community behaves like a regional pain syndrome, as judged by its associations with mental health, self- rated health (SRH), and beliefs about...
Influenza immunisation: attitudes and beliefs of UK health care workers (2007)
Smedley, Julia, Poole, Jason, Waclawski, Eugene, Stevens, Anthony, Harrison, John, Watson, John M., ...
AIMS: To explore attitudes to influenza immunisation and rates of uptake among staff working in acute hospitals in the UK. Method: Among 6302 responders (54% of those mailed), 19% had taken up...
Ryall, Claire, Coggon, David, Peveler, Robert, Reading, Isabel, Palmer, Keith T.
BACKGROUND: Arm pain is a common cause of incapacity for work and is often attributed to occupational activities, but in many cases the pathogenesis is unclear. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether arm...
Ryall, Claire, Coggon, David, Peveler, Robert, Reading, Isabel, Palmer, Keith T.
Background: Arm pain is a common cause of incapacity for work and is often attributed to occupational activities, but in many cases the pathogenesis is unclear. Objective: To investigate whether arm...
Neuropsychiatric symptoms in past users of sheep dip and other pesticides (2007)
Solomon, Christine, Poole, Jason, Palmer, Keith T., Peveler, Robert, Coggon, David
Objectives: To explore the prevalence and pattern of neuropsychiatric symptoms in past users of sheep dip and other pesticides. Methods: From a postal survey of men born between 1933 and 1977 and...
Walker-Bone, Karen, Reading, Isabel, Coggon, David, Cooper, Cyrus, Palmer, Keith T.
Background Few community-based epidemiological investigations of upper limb disorders (ULDs) have classified cases by validated procedures involving a structured clinical examination. Aim To compare...
Bystander exposure: does the current regulatory approach provide adequate protection? (2006)
In September 2005, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP) published a report, which among other things, recommended the introduction of a compulsory 5-metre buffer zone next to...
A case-control study of risk factors for arm pain presenting to primary care services (2006)
Ryall, Claire, Coggon, David, Peveler, Robert, Reading, Isabel, Palmer, Keith T.
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the association of occupational activities, mental health and comorbidity with care seeking for arm pain, and to test the hypothesis that specific disorders arise from...
Parrish, Randall R., Thirlwall, Matthew F., Pickford, Chris, Horstwood, Matthew, Gerdes, Axel, Anderson, James, ...
Accidental exposure to depleted or enriched uranium may occur in a variety of circumstances. There is a need to quantify such exposure, with the possibility that the testing may post-date exposure by...
Parrish, Randall R., Thirlwall, Matthew F., Pickford, Chris, Horstwood, Matthew, Gerdes, Axel, Anderson, James, ...
Accidental exposure to depleted or enriched uranium may occur in a variety of circumstances. There is a need to quantify such exposure, with the possibility that the testing may post-date exposure by...
A case-control study of risk factors for arm pain presenting to primary care services (2006)
Ryall, Claire, Coggon, David, Peveler, Robert, Reading, Isabel, Palmer, Keith T.
Objectives: To investigate the association of occupational activities, mental health and comorbidity with care seeking for arm pain, and to test the hypothesis that specific disorders arise from...
Commentary: complex disease--responding to the challenge (2006)
The thought-provoking paper by Buchanan et al.1 raises fundamental questions. Has epidemiology passed its zenith? If so, why? And what should be our response? In its early years, epidemiology...
Epidemiological differences between back pain of sudden and gradual onset (2005)
Smedley, Julia, Inskip, Hazel, Buckle, Peter, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Objective: to explore possible differences in risk factors for low back pain according to its speed of onset. Methods: we analyzed longitudinal data from 1366 hospital nurses in England who initially...
Assessing case definitions in the absence of a diagnostic gold standard (2005)
Coggon, David, Martyn, Christopher, Palmer, Keith T., Evanoff, Bradley
Optimal case definition is important in epidemiological research, but can be problematic when no satisfactory gold standard is available. In particular, difficulties arise where the pathology...
Palmer, Keith T., Calnan, Michael, Wainwright, David, Poole, Jason, O'Neill, Claire, Winterbottom, Anna, ...
Background: Somatization (a tendency to report distress from somatic symptoms) is a little studied, but potentially important, confounder and effect modifier in occupational studies of...
Walker-Bone, Karen, Palmer, Keith T., Reading, Isabel, Coggon, David, Cooper, Cyrus
Objective: To determine the prevalence, interrelation, and impact of musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limb in the general population. Methods: A total of 9,696 randomly selected adults of...
Walker-Bone, Karen, Reading, Isabel, Coggon, David, Cooper, Cyrus, Palmer, Keith T.
Little is known about the distribution and determinants of pain at multiple sites in the neck and upper limb. To investigate the prevalence, pattern, and clustering of such pains and the association...
Walker-Bone, Karen, Palmer, Keith T., Reading, Isabel, Coggon, David, Cooper, Cyrus
Objective: To determine the prevalence, interrelation, and impact of musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limb in the general population. Methods: A total of 9,696 randomly selected adults of...
Yoshimura, Noriko, Nishioka, Shingo, Kinoshita, Hirofumi, Hori, Noriaki, Nishioka, Taira, Ryujin, Masahiko, ...
Objective: Risk of knee osteoarthritis (OA) associated with constitutional factors, history of joint injuries, and occupational factors was assessed in a case-control study among women in Japan....
Walker-Bone, Karen, Reading, Isabel, Coggon, David, Cooper, Cyrus, Palmer, Keith T.
Little is known about the distribution and determinants of pain at multiple sites in the neck and upper limb. To investigate the prevalence, pattern, and clustering of such pains and the association...
Exposure to metal fume and infectious pneumonia (2003)
Palmer, Keith T., Poole, Jason, Ayres, John G., Mann, Jonathan, Burge, P. Sherwood, Coggon, David
To test the hypothesis that inhalation of metal fume reversibly increases susceptibility to pneumonia, the authors conducted a case-control study. Men aged 20-64 years, admitted to 11 hospitals in...
Extended follow-up of a cohort of British chemical workers exposed to formaldehyde (2003)
Coggon, David, Harris, E. Clare, Poole, Jason, Palmer, Keith T.
Background: Formaldehyde is mutagenic and, when inhaled at high concentrations, carcinogenic in rats. Some epidemiologic studies have linked occupational exposure to formaldehyde with cancers of the...
Cardio-respiratory morbidity and long-term exposure to particulate air pollution (2003)
Solomon, Christine, Poole, Jason, Jarup, Lars, Palmer, Keith, Coggon, David
To explore the long-term influence of particulate air pollution on cardio-respiratory morbidity in the UK, a cross-sectional postal survey was conducted. Women were randomly selected from the...
Reading, Isabel, Walker-Bone, Karen, Palmer, Keith T., Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
To explore whether different distributions of numbness and tingling in the hand can be usefully distinguished in epidemiologic studies of disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome, the authors used a...
Reading, Isabel, Walker-Bone, Karen, Palmer, Keith T., Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
To explore whether different distributions of numbness and tingling in the hand can be usefully distinguished in epidemiologic studies of disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome, the authors used a...
Cohen, Joshua T., Carlson, Gary, Charnley, Gail, Coggon, David, Delzell, Elizabeth, Graham, John D., ...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Syddall, Holly, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Objectives: To investigate the association between functional difficulties in using the upper limb and extent and frequency of finger blanching, and the merits of these markers in grading the...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Syddall, Holly, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Objectives: To investigate the association between functional difficulties in using the upper limb and extent and frequency of finger blanching, and the merits of these markers in grading the...
Sports injury, occupational physical activity, joint laxity, and meniscal damage (2002)
Baker, Paul, Coggon, David, Reading, Isabel, Barrett, David, McLaren, Magnus, Cooper, Cyrus
Objective. To investigate the risk factors for meniscal damage, an important determinant of knee osteoarthritis. Methods. We studied 243 men and women aged 20-59 years in whom the diagnosis of a...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Syddall, Holly, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Objectives: to investigate the association between functional difficulties in using the upper limb and extent and frequency of finger blanching, and the merits of these markers in grading the...
Preventable causes of gastric cancer may also operate in adult life (2002)
The children's rhyme about Jack Spratt and his wife will be familiar to British readers, but Nanni and colleagues believe that married couples such as the Spratts are an exception, at least in...
Occupational exposure to noise and hearing difficulties in Great Britain (2001)
Palmer, Keith T., Coggon, David, Syddall, Holly E., Pannett, Brian, Griffin, Michael J.
The objectives of this research were to determine the prevalence of self-reported hearing difficulties and tinnitus in working-aged people from the general population, and to estimate the risks from...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Syddall, Holly E., Pannett, Brian, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Background: Although some occupational sources of hand-transmitted vibration (HTV) have been extensively investigated, the risks associated with others are poorly characterized. Methods: A...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Syddall, Holly, Pannett, Brian, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Background Although some occupational sources of hand-transmitted vibration (HTV) have been extensively investigated, the risks associated with others are poorly characterized. Methods A...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Syddall, Holly E., Pannett, Brian, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Background: Although some occupational sources of hand-transmitted vibration (HTV) have been extensively investigated, the risks associated with others are poorly characterized. Methods: A...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Bendall, Holly, Pannett, Brian, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Background: Exposure to hand-transmitted vibration (HTV) can cause sensorineural symptoms in the upper limb, but its impact has not previously been assessed in the general population. Methods: To...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Bendall, Holly, Pannett, Brian, Coggon, David
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the number of workers in Great Britain with significant occupational exposure to whole body vibration (WBV) and to identify the common sources of exposure and the occupations...
Validity of self reported occupational exposure to hand-transmitted and whole-body vibration (2000)
Palmer, Keith T., Haward, Barbara, Griffin, Michael J., Bendall, Holly, Coggon, David
OBJECTIVES - To assess the accuracy with which workers report their exposure to occupational sources of hand transmitted (HTV) and whole body vibration (WBV). METHODS - 179 Workers from various jobs...
Personal exposures of children to nitrogen dioxide relative to concentrations in outdoor air (2000)
Linaker, Catherine H., Chauhan, Anoop J., Inskip, Hazel M., Holgate, Stephen T., Coggon, David
Objectives: To investigate the relation between fluctuations in personal exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in school children and changes in outdoor NO2 concentrations. Methods: 114 Asthmatic school...
Flindell, Ian H., Inskip, Hazel, Coggon, David, Finegold, Lawrence S., Huot, Pierre E.
This project was a collaborative effort of the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It examined the feasibility of conducting a prospective epidemiologic study of the effects of...
Back pain in Britain: comparison of two prevalence surveys at an interval of 10 years
Palmer, Keith T, Walsh, Kevin, Bendall, Holly, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Back pain in Britain: comparison of two prevalence surveys at an interval of 10 years
Palmer, Keith T, Walsh, Kevin, Bendall, Holly, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David