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Peritoneal mesothelioma and asbestos exposure: a population-based case–control study in Italy, 2000–2021 Open

Enrica Migliore, Manuela Gangemi, Domenica Cavone, Luigi Vimercati, Sara Piro , et al. · 2025

Objectives Using a case–control design, we examined the association between occupational asbestos exposure and risk of peritoneal mesothelioma in the general population in Italy. Methods From the National Mesothelioma Registry, we selected…

Safety culture maturity models in occupational safety and health: An updated scoping review Open

Stefania Curti, Mena Gallo, Mattia Roberto Nocilla, A Montagnani, Stefano Mattioli , et al. · 2025

Strength and Perceived Effort in Repetitive Upper-Limb Tasks: An OCRA Method Analysis of 900 Workers Open

Stefano Gobbo, Valentina Bullo, Francesco Favro, D. Pavan, Beatrice Doro , et al. · 2025

Background: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders pose a significant burden on the population. The OCRA method plays a key role in assessing the risk associated with repetitive actions of the upper limbs. In this method, muscular force is…

Topical losartan for treating corneal haze after Pseudomonas keratitis: a case report Open

Fabrizio D’Ancona, Pier Luigi Surico, Rosario Alfio Umberto Lizzio, Gabriele D’Ancona, Luca Marelli , et al. · 2025

Background: Corneal scarring following bacterial keratitis, particularly from Pseudomonas infections, poses significant challenges in ophthalmic care. Current treatments often fall short in effectively reducing corneal haze and restoring v…

Diagnosing and Reporting of Occupational Diseases: An Assessment Study of Reports from an Italian Workplace Safety Prevention Program Service Open

Luigi Isaia Lecca, Sergio Pili, Michele Lai, Alessandro Murru, Giuseppe Campo , et al. · 2025

Background: The criteria for diagnosing and compensating for occupational diseases vary significantly between countries. The lists of occupational diseases often include diagnostic and attribution criteria that are usually not very specifi…

Occupational Infections Among Workers in Europe: Protocol for a Scoping Review Open

Guglielmo Dini, Stefania Curti, Alborz Rahmani, Paolo Durando, Stefano Mattioli · 2025

Background Workers may be exposed to different infectious agents, putting them at risk of developing occupational diseases. This can occur in many ways, through deliberate use of speciﬁc microorganisms or through potential exposure from cl…

Late-onset capsular bag distension syndrome 33 years after cataract surgery Open

Rosario Alfio Umberto Lizzio, F Polimeni, Andrea Dellavalle, Fabrizio D’Ancona, Martina Colombo , et al. · 2024

O-177 OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS AND CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE CARA CASE-CONTROL STUDY Open

Stefania Curti, Giovanni Brandi, Simona Tavolari, Marzia Deserti, Stefano Mattioli · 2024

Introduction Recent studies supported the association between occupational exposure to asbestos and risk of cholangiocarcinoma (CC). Aim of the present study is to investigate this association evaluating occupational and non-occupational e…

Cholangiocarcinoma and Occupational Exposure to Asbestos: Insights From the Italian Pooled Cohort Study Open

Stefania Curti, Mena Gallo, Daniela Ferrante, Francesca Bella, Lorenza Boschetti , et al. · 2024

Background: Recent studies supported the association between occupational exposure to asbestos and risk of cholangiocarcinoma (CC). Aim of the present study is to investigate this association using an update of mortality data from the Ital…

The Role of Physical Exercise in the Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders in Manual Workers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Open

Valentina Bullo, Francesco Favro, D. Pavan, Alessandro Bortoletto, Stefano Gobbo , et al. · 2024

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are the most common occupational health problem in the European Union. Physical exercise interventions have been investigated in the prevention of WMSDs in many sectors. Therefore, our aim was…

Exploring occupational toxicant exposures in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: A prospective pilot study Open

Francesco Tovoli, Bernardo Stefanini, Daniele Mandrioli, Stefano Mattioli, Andrea Vornoli , et al. · 2023

In this pilot study, patients with MASLD complications were more likely to report workplace toxicant exposure. Our results warrant future multicentre confirmatory studies, as implementing prevention policies may reduce the risk of life-thr…

Recognition of COVID-19 with occupational origin: a comparison between European countries Open

Evelien Nys, Sara Pauwels, Balázs Ádám, João Amaro, Athanasios E. Athanasiou , et al. · 2023

Objectives This study aims to present an overview of the formal recognition of COVID-19 as occupational disease (OD) or injury (OI) across Europe. Methods A COVID-19 questionnaire was designed by a task group within COST-funded OMEGA-NET a…

Valerius Geist: a global leader in deer biology and conservation Open

Jo Anne M. Smith-Flueck, Stefano Mattioli · 2023

Professor Valerius Geist was a world-renowned deer biologist who made important contributions to deer science, especially in the areas of animal behaviour, the evolution of cervids in the Pleistocene, and deer conservation. One of his grea…

Cause specific mortality in an Italian pool of asbestos workers cohorts Open

Daniela Ferrante, Alessia Angelini, Fabiano Barbiero, Fabio Barbone, Lisa Bauleo , et al. · 2023

Background Asbestos is a known human carcinogen and is causally associated with malignant mesothelioma, lung, larynx and ovarian cancers. Methods Cancer risk was studied among a pool of formerly asbestos‐exposed workers in Italy. Fifty‐two…

Shoulder Tendinopathies and Occupational Biomechanical Overload: A Critical Appraisal of Available Evidence Open

Stefania Curti, Stefano Mattioli, Francesco Saverio Violante · 2023

Background: The aim of this study is to evaluate the association between occupational exposure to biomechanical risk factors and shoulder tendinopathies. Methods: We updated recent systematic reviews about specific shoulder disorders and w…

Pleural mesothelioma risk in the construction industry: a case–control study in Italy, 2000–2018 Open

Simona Stella, Dario Consonni, Enrica Migliore, Antonella Stura, Domenica Cavone , et al. · 2023

Objectives Workers in the construction industry have been exposed to asbestos in various occupations. In Italy, a National Mesothelioma Registry has been implemented more than 20 years ago. Using cases selected from this registry and explo…

Asbestos exposure as an additional risk factor for small duct intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: a pilot study Open

Francesco Vasuri, Marzia Deserti, Angelo Gianluca Corradini, Simona Tavolari, Valeria Relli , et al. · 2023

Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) is a rare malignancy, recently classified in small duct and large duct morphological subtypes. Growing evidence suggests asbestos as a putative risk factor for iCCA, albeit no correlation between asbe…

Phylogeny and evolution of the genus Cervus (Cervidae, Mammalia) as revealed by complete mitochondrial genomes Open

Paweł Mackiewicz, Maciej Matosiuk, Magdalena Świsłocka, Frank E. Zachos, Ghaiet M. Hajji , et al. · 2022

Cholangiocarcinoma and pleural mesothelioma: asbestos exposure as a shared risk factor? A comparison of age-standardized incidence rates in Italy Open

Mena Gallo, Stefano Mattioli, Stefania Curti · 2022

Background and aim. Cholangiocarcinoma (CC) is the second most common primary liver malignancy. Anatomically, CC is divided into intrahepatic (ICC) and extrahepatic (ECC) forms. A possible causal association between ICC and exposure to asb…

Wireless phones and brain tumour risk in young people: results of the multi-national MOBI-Kids study Open

Gemma Castaño‐Vinyals, S. Sadetzki, Roel Vermeulen, Franco Momoli, Michael Kundi , et al. · 2022

Background and aim. The possibility that wireless (mobile and cordless) phone use might increase brain tumour (BT) risk, has long been a concern, particularly in young people. We studied the association between wireless phone use and subsq…

Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities Open

Charles J. Marsh, Yanina V. Sica, Connor Burgin, Wendy A. Dorman, Robert C. Anderson , et al. · 2022

Aim Comprehensive, global information on species' occurrences is an essential biodiversity variable and central to a range of applications in ecology, evolution, biogeography and conservation. Expert range maps often represent a species' o…

Exposure to Asbestos and Increased Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Risk: Growing Evidences of a Putative Causal Link Open

Giovanni Brandi, Kurt Straíf, Daniele Mandrioli, Stefania Curti, Stefano Mattioli , et al. · 2022

To date the true global incidence of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) and the underlying risk factors remain to be fully defined, in particular, the role of occupational and environmental factors. Currently, the putative role of asbe…

Effectiveness of disease and injury prevention among healthcare workers: intervention studies published in the Conference proceedings of the Italian Society of Occupational Medicine (1989-2018) Open

Stefania Curti, Francesco Sorrentino, Lisa Notarini, Stefano Mattioli · 2022

Cholangiocarcinoma and pleural mesothelioma: asbestos exposure as a shared risk factor? A comparison of age-standardized incidence rates in Italy Open

Mena Gallo, Stefano Mattioli, Stefania Curti · 2022

Wireless phone use in childhood and adolescence and neuroepithelial brain tumours: Results from the international MOBI-Kids study Open

Gemma Castaño‐Vinyals, Siegal Sadetzki, Roel Vermeulen, Franco Momoli, Michael Kundi , et al. · 2021

In recent decades, the possibility that use of mobile communicating devices, particularly wireless (mobile and cordless) phones, may increase brain tumour risk, has been a concern, particularly given the considerable increase in their use …

Towards harmonisation of case definitions for eight work-related musculoskeletal disorders - an international multi-disciplinary Delphi study Open

Sietske J. Tamminga, Paul Kuijer, Kathryn Badarin, José Hernán Alfonso, Joana Amaro , et al. · 2021

Background International consensus is needed on case definitions of work-related musculoskeletal disorders and diseases (MSDs) for use in epidemiological research. We aim to: 1) study what information is needed for the case definition of w…

P-314 Establishing a European-American pooled cohort of styrene exposed reinforced plastics workers Open

Mette Christensen, Damien McElvenny, Yvette Christopher‐de Vries, Ioannis Basinas, Martie van Tongeren , et al. · 2021

Introduction Styrene is genotoxic, an animal carcinogen, associated with lymphohematopoietic malignancies in humans, and classified as a group 2A carcinogen by the IARC. Objective To combine and harmonize existing cohorts of reinforced pla…

Effectiveness of preventive interventions and Randomised Controlled Trials in Occupational Health: an overview of the last five decades Open

Stefano Mattioli, Jos Verbeek, Simone Matteï, Stefania Curti · 2021

Introduction: Evidence-Based Medicine, as a new scientific paradigm, modified the approach to diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases based on the best available scientific evidence synthesized in systematic reviews since the last…

Land cover and weather jointly predict biometric indicators of phenotypic quality in a large herbivore Open

Chiara Vannini, Niccolò Fattorini, Stefano Mattioli, Sandro Nicoloso, Francesco Ferretti · 2021

Spatial variation in antler investment of Apennine red deer Open

Stefano Mattioli, Francesco Ferretti, Sandro Nicoloso, Luca Corlatti · 2021

Heterogeneity in resource availability and quality can trigger spatial patterns in the expression of sexually selected traits such as body mass and weaponry. While relationships between habitat features and phenotypic quality are well esta…

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