Occupational lifting and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment: a follow-up study of Swedish conscripts.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the association between occupational lifting and the risk of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) using data from a large population of men.

Methods

We used data from a national cohort of 49 321 Swedish men conscripted for compulsory military service in 1969-1970. We collected information on surgically treated RRD from the National Patient Register and we followed up the cohort between 1991 and 2009 at ages 40-60 years. Exposure to occupational lifting was assessed by applying a job exposure matrix to occupational data from the 1990 census. Incidence rate ratios (IRRs) and 95% CIs were estimated through Poisson regression models adjusted by degree of myopia, income and education level.

Results

We observed 217 cases of RRD in 7 80 166 perso

SUBMITTER: Farioli A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9040060 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature