A Prospective Cohort Study Investigating an Exposure-Response Relationship among Vibration-Exposed Male Workers with Numbness of the Hands

• Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment ＆ Health Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 203 - 209
• Main Authors: EDLUND, Maria, BURSTRÖM, Lage, GERHARDSSON, Lars, LUNDSTRÖM, Ronnie, NILSSON, Tohr, SANDEN, Helena, HAGBERG, Mats
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Helsinki Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment ＆ Health 01.03.2014; Nordic Association of Occupation Safety and Health; Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health; Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health; Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH)
• Subjects: Adult; arm vibration; association; Biological and medical sciences; Carpal tunnel syndrome; Causality; Cohort analysis; Cohort Studies; Cranial nerves. Spinal roots. Peripheral nerves. Autonomic nervous system. Gustation. Olfaction; Diseases of the osteoarticular system; Dosage; Dose response relationship; Employment - statistics & numerical data; Engineering; exposure; exposure–response relationship; Fingers; Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa och socialmedicin; Follow-Up Studies; forest workers; general-population; hand-arm vibration; Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome - epidemiology; Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome - etiology; Hands; HAV; Humans; Hypesthesia; Hypesthesia - epidemiology; Hypesthesia - etiology; International organizations; International standards; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Manual workers; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Miscellaneous. Osteoarticular involvement in other diseases; Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes); Neurologic manifestations; Neurology; numbness; numbness of the hands; Occupational exposure; Occupational Exposure - adverse effects; Occupational Exposure - statistics & numerical data; Occupational medicine; prospective cohort; prospective cohort study; Prospective Studies; Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Questionnaires; Recruitment; Risk Assessment; sensorineural symptom; Survival analysis; Sweden; Symptoms; Thyroid diseases; Time Factors; transmitted vibration; Traumas. Diseases due to physical agents; Vascular injuries: limbs, aorta, vena cava; Vibration; Vibration - adverse effects; work; work performance; Sweden; carpal tunnel syndrome; work performance; sensorineural symptom; survival analysis; HAV; hand-arm vibration; Compression; Diseases of the osteoarticular system; Male; Occupational exposure; Epidemiology; Dose activity relation; Cohort study; Repetitive micro-trauma; Worker; Job performance; Peripheral nerve disease; Neurological disorder; Hand-arm vibration syndrome; Human; Carpal tunnel syndrome; Nervous system diseases; Vibration; Vibration induced disorder; Hand; Symptomatology; Survival analysis; Striated muscle disease; Follow up study; Musculoskeletal disorder; Vocational aptitude; Occupational medicine

Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the exposure-response relationship of hand-arm vibration (HAV) exposure to neurological symptoms (numbness) of the hand in a cohort of vibration-exposed workers. Methods The baseline cohort comprised 241 office and manual workers with and without ex...