Association of occupational and non-occupational risk factors with the prevalence of self-reported carpal tunnel syndrome in a national survey of the working population

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 550-556

  Tanaka, Shiro ^a   Wild, Deanna K ^a,b   Cameron, Lorraine L ^a   Freund, Eugene ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b US Sprint   (United States)

^c Health Care Financing Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Carpal tunnel syndrome; Health interview survey; Repetitive manual work

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VIBRATION;

EID: 0030952604     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199711)32:5<550::AID-AJIM18>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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