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Top Occupational & Environmental Health Research Papers
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6.4
Residential Radon Levels and Ovarian Cancer Among Postmenopausal Women.
Overall: This strong US prospective cohort identifies a modest association between high residential radon zones and ovarian cancer incidence and mortality, but exposure limitations and the absence of intervention evidence constrain immediate practice change.
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6.2
Motivational interviewing and air cleaners for smokers with COPD (MOVE): a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
Overall: A well-designed but small trial found a modest, clinically meaningful quality-of-life benefit from an implementable home intervention, without evidence of fewer COPD exacerbations.
3.
6.0
Suicide mortality in United States urban career firefighters and emergency medical service providers.
Overall: This large, long-term US cohort study provides credible suicide-mortality estimates and identifies important risk associations, but its observational findings do not demonstrate that a specific intervention improves outcomes.
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5.7
Predicting US Army Soldier Suicide-Related Behaviors at the Time of Periodic Health Assessments.
Overall: This large prognostic study uses patient-important outcomes and existing Army data, but uncertain precision for suicide prediction, limited sensitivity, no external validation, and no demonstrated clinical net benefit restrict its immediate impact.
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5.7
Modelled effect on mesothelioma mortality of the asbestos ban in Italy and the subsequent phases of exposure.
Overall: Large surveillance data and important mortality outcomes suggest major benefits from asbestos prohibition, but model-dependent counterfactual estimates, limited precision reporting, and indirect applicability to current US practice constrain the study's impact.
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5.6
Heatstroke Over the Past Decade: Risk Factors, Long-Term Health Consequences, and Preventive Measures.
Overall: This systematic review offers clinically useful heat-risk and long-term outcome information, but heterogeneous evidence, reliance on intermediate outcomes, and an emergency-focused intervention limit its impact on routine US primary care.
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5.5
Neurodegenerative mortality among National Football League Players.
Overall: A large and methodologically strengthened cohort demonstrates markedly elevated neurodegenerative mortality among NFL players, but its narrow population and lack of an actionable intervention limit its effect on routine US primary care.
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5.5
Asthma Control Before and After Changing Gas Stoves to Electric Stoves.
Overall: Clinically meaningful improvements followed gas-to-electric stove replacement, but the small uncontrolled study cannot establish causality and the household intervention may be costly or difficult to implement.
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5.4
Long COVID symptom profiles, workforce participation, and working hours among adults in England: a population-based cohort study.
Overall: This large English cohort identifies precise, clinically meaningful associations between unresolved Long COVID and poorer employment outcomes, but its observational design and lack of a tested intervention limit immediate changes to US practice.
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5.4
Effects of Job Lock and Work Arrangements on the Incidence of Occupational Injuries to Older Workers in the Health and Retirement Study, 2010-2022.
Overall: A longitudinal observational study finds job lock is associated with higher self-reported occupational injury rates in older workers, but residual confounding and limited actionable clinical interventions constrain near-term practice impact.
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