About the Authors
- David Coggon
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* E-mail: dnc@mrc.soton.ac.uk
Affiliation Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- Georgia Ntani
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- Keith T. Palmer
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- Vanda E. Felli
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Affiliation School of Nursing, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Raul Harari
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Affiliation Corporación para el Desarrollo de la Producción y el Medio Ambiente Laboral – IFA (Institute for the Development of Production and the Work Environment), Quito, Ecuador
- Lope H. Barrero
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Affiliation School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
- Sarah A. Felknor
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Affiliations Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Disease Control and Prevention/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- David Gimeno
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Affiliation Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Anna Cattrell
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London, UK
- Consol Serra
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Affiliations Center for Research in Occupational Health (CiSAL), Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, Carlos III Health Institute: Biomedical Research Networking Center of Epidemiology and Public Health, Granada, Spain, Occupational Health Department, Parc de Salut MAR, Barcelona, Spain
- Matteo Bonzini
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Affiliation Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Research Center, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
- Eleni Solidaki
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Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- Eda Merisalu
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Affiliation Department of Public health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Rima R. Habib
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
- Farideh Sadeghian
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Affiliation Department of Occupational Health, Faculty of Health, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran
- Masood Kadir
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Affiliation Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
- Sudath S. P. Warnakulasuriya
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Affiliation Department of Medical Education and Health Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka
- Ko Matsudaira
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Affiliation Clinical Research Centre for Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders, Kanto Rosai Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan
- Busisiwe Nyantumbu
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Affiliations National Institute for Occupational Health, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Malcolm R. Sim
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Helen Harcombe
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Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Ken Cox
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- Maria H. Marziale
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Affiliation School of Nursing of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Leila M. Sarquis
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Affiliation Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba-PR, Brazil
- Florencia Harari
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Affiliation Corporación para el Desarrollo de la Producción y el Medio Ambiente Laboral – IFA (Institute for the Development of Production and the Work Environment), Quito, Ecuador
- Rocio Freire
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Affiliation Corporación para el Desarrollo de la Producción y el Medio Ambiente Laboral – IFA (Institute for the Development of Production and the Work Environment), Quito, Ecuador
- Natalia Harari
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Affiliation Corporación para el Desarrollo de la Producción y el Medio Ambiente Laboral – IFA (Institute for the Development of Production and the Work Environment), Quito, Ecuador
- Magda V. Monroy
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Affiliation School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
- Leonardo A. Quintana
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Affiliation School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
- Marianela Rojas
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Affiliation Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), National University of Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica
- Eduardo J. Salazar Vega
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Affiliation Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- E. Clare Harris
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- Sergio Vargas-Prada
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Affiliation Center for Research in Occupational Health (CiSAL), Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
- J. Miguel Martinez
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Affiliations Center for Research in Occupational Health (CiSAL), Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, Carlos III Health Institute: Biomedical Research Networking Center of Epidemiology and Public Health, Granada, Spain
- George Delclos
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Affiliations Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Research in Occupational Health (CiSAL), Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, Carlos III Health Institute: Biomedical Research Networking Center of Epidemiology and Public Health, Granada, Spain
- Fernando G. Benavides
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Affiliations Center for Research in Occupational Health (CiSAL), Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, Carlos III Health Institute: Biomedical Research Networking Center of Epidemiology and Public Health, Granada, Spain
- Michele Carugno
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Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
- Marco M. Ferrario
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Affiliation Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Research Center, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
- Angela C. Pesatori
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Affiliations Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, Fondazione Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
- Leda Chatzi
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Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- Panos Bitsios
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- Manolis Kogevinas
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Affiliations Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece
- Kristel Oha
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Affiliation North Estonia Medical Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
- Tuuli Sirk
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Affiliation Põlva Hospital, Põlva, Estonia
- Ali Sadeghian
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Affiliation Klinikum Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Germany
- Roshini J. Peiris-John
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Affiliations Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka, Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Nalini Sathiakumar
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- A. Rajitha Wickremasinghe
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Kalaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
- Noriko Yoshimura
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Affiliation Department of Joint Disease Research, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Danuta Kielkowski
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Affiliations National Institute for Occupational Health, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Helen L. Kelsall
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Victor C. W. Hoe
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Donna M. Urquhart
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Sarah Derett
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Affiliation Injury Prevention Research Unit, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- David McBride
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Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Andrew Gray
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Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DC KTP. Performed the experiments: DC GN KTP KC VEF MHM LMS RH FH RF NH LHB MVM LAQ MR SAF DG EJSV ECH AC SVP CS JMM GD FGB MB MC MMF ACP ES LC PB MK EM KO TS RRH FS AS MMK SSPW RJPJ NS ARW KM NY BN DK MRS HLK VCWH DMU HH SD DM AG. Analyzed the data: GN DC. Wrote the paper: DC. Principal investigator Brazil: VEF. Principal investigator Ecuador: RH. Principal investigator Colombia: LHB. Principal Investigators Costa Rica and Nicaragua: SAF DG. Principal investigator UK: DC. Principal investigator Spain: SV-P. Principal investigator Italy: MB. Principal investigator Greece: ES. Principal investigator Estonia: EM. Principal investigator Lebanon: RRH. Principal investigator Iran: FS. Principal investigator Pakistan: MMK. Principal investigator Sri Lanka: SSPW. Principal investigator Japan: KM. Principal investigator South Africa: BN. Principal investigator Australia: MRS. Principal investigator New Zealand: HH. All authors reviewed the draft manuscript and contributed to its finalization.