Occupational and environmental medicine

01 16 October 2026

DOI 10.1136/oemed-2026-111002

Wearable-assessed sleep in Arctic industrial shift workers: effects of shift type, chronotype and season

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Line Victoria Moen, Andreas N Holme, Kristian Bernhard Nilsen et al.

02 16 October 2026

DOI 10.1136/oemed-2026-110859

Allied health care trajectories for workers’ compensation claims for injuries of the shoulder and low back pain: state sequence analysis

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Tesfaye Hambisa Mekonnen, Grant Russell, Alex Collie et al.

03 16 October 2026

DOI 10.1136/oemed-2026-111063

Disparities in healthy working life expectancy among economically active individuals at age 50 by employment type and occupation

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Jongin Lee, Marty Lynch, Munyoung Yang et al.

Objectives This study analysed the healthy working life expectancy among economically active individuals to examine the differences in working duration and healthy years by employment type and occupational category in South Korea. Method...

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04 14 October 2026

DOI 10.1136/oemed-2025-110695

Association between occupational LiFePO 4 exposure and cardiac autonomic function: a cross-sectional study of cathode material production workers

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Le Yang, Yunman Wen, Xuebin Yang et al.

05 12 October 2026

DOI 10.1136/oemed-2026-111240

Impacts of working from home on sedentary behaviour, physical activity and diet in the post-pandemic era: a within-subject measures study in hybrid workers

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Karesna Mehta, Elizabeth Stamp, Mohsen Sayyah et al.

06 5 October 2026

DOI 10.1136/oemed-2026-111219

Mammographic density as a potential mediator in the association between night shift work and breast cancer risk

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Jennifer A Ritonja, Héctor A Velásquez García, Rachel A Murphy et al.

Objectives: Long-term night shift work is hypothesised to cause changes in mammographic density, which could promote the development of breast cancer. The objective of this study was to explore mammographic density as a mediator in the a...

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07 29 September 2026

DOI 10.1136/oemed-2026-110995

Evening chronotype and disability pensions: 12-year register-based follow-up of middle-aged adults from the Northern Finland birth cohort 1966

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Tapio Räihä, Ilona Merikanto, Iiro Nerg et al.

Objectives: Evening chronotypes (E) generally have poorer health than morning chronotypes (M), but whether this translates into disability pensions (DPs) is poorly known. We examined whether chronotype at age 46 predicts incident DPs ove...

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08 28 August 2026

DOI 10.1136/oemed-2026-110920

Drug utilisation across occupations among pregnant women working in the healthcare and social assistance sector in France: a nationwide population-based study

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Mélanie Araujo, Justine Bénévent, Christine Damase-Michel et al.

Objectives Medication use during pregnancy is common, but patterns may differ across occupational subgroups, particularly in healthcare and social assistance where working conditions, education and health literacy vary. We aimed to compa...

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09 18 August 2026

DOI 10.1136/oemed-2025-110766

Sleep disturbances and sleep duration as predictors of working life expectancy among adults aged 50 years and older in Finland

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Saana Myllyntausta, Katriina Heikkilä, Jaana Pentti et al.

Objectives: To examine the associations of sleep disturbances and sleep duration with working life expectancy (WLE; the estimated number of years an individual is expected to be in the workforce) from age 50 to 68. Methods: Data of indiv...

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10 17 August 2026

DOI 10.1136/oemed-2026-110919

Occupational noise exposure and risk of myocardial infarction: results from a prospective Swedish cohort

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Claudia Lissåker, Mattias Sjöström, Theo Bodin et al.

To explore the association between occupational noise exposure the preceding year and myocardial infarction (MI) and cumulatively. Data came from the Swedish National Cohort on Work and Health, a cohort of all Swedish individuals born be...

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