Association between musculoskeletal pain in Japanese construction workers and job, age, alcohol consumption, and smoking

Industrial Health

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 449-456

  Ueno, Satoru ^a   Hisanaga, Naomi ^a   Jonai, Hiroshi ^a   Shibata, Eiji ^b   Kamijima, Michihiro ^c  

^a NATL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; Construction worker; Cross sectional; Hand arm pain; Low back pain; Shoulder pain; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BONE PAIN; BUILDING INDUSTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; JOB ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYALGIA; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0032759034     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.37.449     Document Type: Article

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