List of scientific publications

The aim of this conference, organised by INRS and supported by the Partnership for European Research in Occupational Health and Safety (PEROSH), was to review knowledge of allergies, invalidating and very often under-estimated pathologies, in…

Objectives: To synthesize the epidemiological evidence of the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes among hairdressers and cosmetologists.
Methods: A systematic literature search up to 1 February 2012 was carried out using major bibliographic…

Background: There are still uncertainties regarding the respective prevalence, diagnosis and management of occupational asthma (OA) and work-exacerbated asthma (WEA). Indeed, there is as yet no standardized methodology to differentiate the…

In view of the recent published studies, a meta-analysis was undertaken on prospective studies in order to assess any association between lateral epicondylitis and physical exposure at work.Using the key words: "lateral epicondylitis" and "occupational…

It is presented in this paper epidemiological data about strokes and shift work (SW). One study of good quality has reported a significant positive association, but weak, between stroke and SW. Globally, the findings remain conflicting and often…

Le secteur d’activité de la coiffure et des soins de beauté emploie environ 200 000 personnes en France, dont la majorité des femmes en âge de procréer (INSEE, 2009). Or l’impact des substances chimiques potentiellement reprotoxiques ou perturbateurs…

The association for the development of studies and epidemiological researches in occupational health (ADEREST) organized its 16th meeting, with 3 invited conferences on road safety and work, occupational activities and cognitive functions…

Objective. To describe the performance of a lifelong task-based questionnaire (TBQ) in estimating exposures compared with other approaches in the context of a case-control study.
Methods. A sample of 93 subjects was randomly selected from a lung…

In this article, we introduce a new Stata command that estimate the net survival function and the net cumulative hazard. The command includes graphic facilities. It has been designed to have a similar syntax to sts, the Stata command dedicated to…

Introduction Occupational exposure to grain dust causes respiratory symptoms and pathologies. To decrease these effects, major changes have occurred in the grain processing industry in the last twenty years. However, there are no data on the…