Health problems in cold work

Industrial Health

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 207-220

  Mäkinen, Tiina M ^a   Hassi, Juhani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular; Cold; Diabetes; Injuries; Musculoskeletal; Occupational; Respiratory; Skin

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT;

ACCIDENT; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; AWARENESS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLD; COLD CLIMATE; COLD INJURY; COLD URTICARIA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COUGHING; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSPNEA; ERYTHEMA; EXERCISE; FALLING; HAND ARM VIBRATION SYNDROME; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KNEE PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; MUSCULOSKELETAL STIFFNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SWELLING; NAMED GROUPS BY OCCUPATION; NECK MALFORMATION; NECK PAIN; PANNICULITIS; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PERIPHERAL ISCHEMIA; POPULATION; PROTECTION; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; RASH; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RHINORRHEA; RISK; RISK MANAGEMENT; SHOULDER PAIN; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN EDEMA; TENDINITIS; TENOSYNOVITIS; THORAX PAIN; WHEEZING; WORK; WORKPLACE;

COLD TEMPERATURE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 68549096018     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.47.207     Document Type: Review

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