Personal and occupational predictors of sciatica in the GAZEL cohort

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 384-391

  Leclerc, Annette ^a   Tubach, F ^a   Landre, M F ^a   Ozguler, A ^a  

^a Hospital National de Saint Maurice   (France)

Author keywords

Bending; Cohort; Driving; Height; Low back pain; Sciatica

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CAR DRIVING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRICITY; EMPLOYEE; FOLLOW UP; FRANCE; GAS; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; ISCHIALGIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCIATICA;

EID: 0141730276     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqg072     Document Type: Article

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