Occupational lifting, fetal death and preterm birth: findings from the Danish National Birth Cohort using a job exposure matrix.

We examined the association between occupational lifting during pregnancy and risk of fetal death and preterm birth using a job exposure matrix (JEM).For 68,086 occupationally active women in the Danish National Birth Cohort, interview information on occupational lifting was collected around gestati...

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Main Authors: Emina Mocevic, Susanne Wulff Svendsen, Kristian Tore Jørgensen, Poul Frost, Jens Peter Bonde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3948676?pdf=render