The effect of the presence and characteristics of an outlying group on exposure-outcome associations

• Main Authors: Pieter Coenen (Author), Svend Erik Mathiassen (Author), Idsart Kingma (Author), Cécile RL Boot (Author), Paulien M Bongers (Author), Jaap H van Dieën (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVES: Physical exposures (eg, lifting or bending) are believed to be risk factors for low-back pain (LBP), but the literature is inconsistent. Exposure and LBP prevalence differ considerably between occupations, and exposure-outcome associations could be severely modified by the presence of pa...