Occupational and personal factors associated with acquired lumbar spondylolisthesis of urban taxi drivers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 992-998

  Chen, J C ^a   Chan, W P ^b,c   Katz, J N ^d   Chang, W P ^e   Christiani, D C ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS SECTION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DRIVER; DRIVING TIME PROFILE; EXERCISE; EXPOSURE RESPONSE RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL FACTOR; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERSONAL FACTOR; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAIWAN; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TAIWAN; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 9444248162     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2003.011775     Document Type: Article

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