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Publications: full list

2008

• Measurement of trends in incidence of work-related skin and respiratory diseases, UK 1996–2005
  Occup Environ Med 2008; 65: 808-814
  McNamee R, Carder M, Chen Y, Agius R

• New Research With GPs Suggests Sick Notes Are A Complex Issue
  Medical News Today 04 Jul 2008
  Agius R

• The validity and reliability of diagnoses of work-related mental ill-health
  Occup Environ Med 2008; 65: 726-731
  O’Neill E, McNamee R, Agius R, Gittins M, Hussey L, Turner S
  

• Exposure to Inhalable Dust and its Cyclohexane Soluble Fraction since 1970s in the Rubber Manufacturing Industry in the European Union
  Occup Environ Med 2008; 65: 384-391 (Epub 2007; doi:10.1136/oem.2007.034470)
  de Vocht F, Vermeulen R, Burstyn I, Sobala W, Dost A, Taeger D, Bergendorf U, Straif K, Swuste P, Kromhout H
  

• Work-related ill health in general practice, as reported to a UK-wide surveillance scheme
  British Journal of General Practice 2008 Sept; 58(554): 637-640
  Hussey L, Turner S, Thorley K, McNamee R,  Agius R
  
  

2007

• The incidence of occupational skin disease as reported to The Health and Occupation Reporting (THOR) network between 2002 and 2005
  British Journal of Dermatology 2007 Oct; 157(4): 713-722
  Turner S et al

• Pooled analyses of effects on visual and visuomotor performance from exposure to magnetic stray fields from MRI scanners: application of the Bayesian framework
  J Magn Reson Imaging 2007 Nov; 26(5): 1255-60
  de Vocht F, Glover P, Engles H, Kromhout H

• Occupational Exposure to Crystalline Silica and Risk of Lung Cancer A Multicentre Case-Control Study in Europe
  Epidemiology 2007; 18(1): 36-43
  Cassidy A, Mannetje A, van Tongeren M, Field J, Zaridze D, Szeszenia-Dabrowska N, Rudnai P, Lissowska J, Fabianova E, Mates D, Benko V, Foretova L, Janout V, Fevotte J, Fletcher T, Brennan P, Boffetta P

• Specialist competencies in occupational medicine: appraisal of the peer-reviewed literature
  Occupational Medicine 2007; 57: 342-348
  Gallagher F, Pilkington A, Wynn P, Johnson R, Moore J, Agius R

• Human colorectal mucosal 0⁶-alkylguanine DNA-alkyltransferase activity and DNA-N7-methylguanine levels in colorectal adenoma cases and matched referents
  Gut 2007; 56(3): 380-4
  Lees NP, Harrison K, Hall CN, Margison GP and Povey A

• GST, CYP and PON1 polymorphisms in farmers attributing ill-health to organophosphate containing sheep-dip
  Biomarkers 2007; 12: 188-202
  Povey, AC, Jury F, Dippnall M, Smith T, Thomson S, Mackness B, Mackness M, Durrington P, Cherry N

• Lung cancer risk and variation in MGMT activity and sequence
  DNA Repair 2007; 6(8): 1134-44
  Povey AC, Margison GP, Santibáñez Koref MF

• Paradoxical asthma hazard of short-acting beta2-agonists
  Letter to Editor. Allergy 2008 Feb; 63(2): 241. Epub 2007 Nov 19
  Seed M J, Agius R M

• CDP for GPs using the THOR-GP website
  Occupational Medicine 2007; 57(8): 575-580
  Thorley K, Turner S, Hussey L, Zarin N, Agius R

2006

• Levels of second hand smoke in pubs and bars by deprivation and food-serving status: a cross-sectional study from North West England
  BMC Public Health 2006; 6(1): 42
  Edwards R, Hasselholdt CP, Hargreaves K, Probert C, Holford R, Hart J, van Tongeren M, Watson AF

• Second-hand smoke levels in pubs and bars: do the English Public Health White Paper proposals go far enough?
  J Public Health (Oxf) 2006; 28(1): 17-23
  Gee IL, Watson AF, Carrington J, Edwards PR, van Tongeren M, McElduff P, Edwards RE.

• N7-Methyldeoxyguanosine levels in DNA isolated from cervical cytology samples are associated with smoking
  Int J Cancer 2006; 119: 961-996
  Harrison KL, Khan N, Dey P, Povey A

• Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in adults: case-control study
  BMJ 2006; 332(7546): 883-887
  Hepworth SJ, Schoemaker MJ, Muir KR, Swerdlow AJ, van Tongeren MJ, McKinney PA

• Advantages and disadvantages of using a computer assisted personal interview to collect occupational exposure data: experiences of the UK Adult Brain Tumour Study
  Occup Environ Med 2006; 63: 267-272
  Hepworth SJ, Bolton A, Parslow RC, van Tongeren M, Muir KR, McKinney PA

• Genetic Variation at the Human MGMT Locus and its Biological Consequences
  Current Pharmacogenomics 2006 June; 4(2): 133-144
  Margison GP, Povey A, Santibáñez Koref MF

• History of allergies and risk of glioma in adults
  Int J Cancer 2006; 119: 2165-2172
  Minouk J, Schoemaker MJ, Swerdlow AJ, Hepworth SJ, McKinney P, van Tongeren M, Muir KR

• No association between N7-methyldeoxyguanosine and 8-oxodeoxyguanosine levels in human lymphocyte DNA
  Mutat. Res 2006; 600: 125-30
  Harrison, KL, Crosbie PAJ, Agius RM, Barber PV, Carus M, Margison GP and Povey AC

• Smoking is associated with a decrease of O⁶-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase activity in bronchial epithelial cells
  Int J Cancer 2006; 119: 463-466
  Povey AC, O'Donnell P, Barber P, Watson M, Margison GP, Koref MF

• Pooled and meta analysis of GSTT1 polymorphism and lung cancer: a HuGE-GSEC review
  Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006; 164:1027-1042 (in press)
  Raimondi S, Paracchini V, Autrup H, Benhamou S, Boffetta P, Cote ML, Dialyna IA, Dolzan V, Dragani T, Garte S, Hirvonen A, Husgafvel-Pursiainen K, Imyanitov EN, Kalina I, Kang D, Kiyohara C, Kremers P, Lan Q, Neri M, Povey AC, Rannug A, Reszka E, Risch A, Romkes M, Ruano-Ravina A, Schneider J, Seow A, Shields PG, Sobti RC, Sørensen M, Spitz MR, Strange RC, Stücker I, Sugimura H, To-Figueras J, Tokudome S, Yang P, Yokota J, Warholm M. and Taioli E
  

• Bladder tumour contains higher N7-methylguanine levels in DNA than adjacent normal bladder epithelium
  Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers and Prevent. 2006; 15: 740-743
  Saad AA, O'Connor PJ, Mostafa MH, Metwalli NE, Cooper DP, Margison GP, Povey AC

• Prediction of asthma hazard of thiamine
  (letter to editor). Allergy 2006; 61: 648
  Seed MJ, Agius RM

• Prediction of asthma hazard of glutaraldehyde substitutes
  Letter to the editor. Occup Med (Lond) 2006; 56: 284-285
  Seed MJ, Hussey L, Lines S, Agius RM

• Are variance components of exposure heterogeneous between time periods and factories in the European carbon black industry?
  Ann Occup Hyg 2006; 50(1): 55-64
  van Tongeren M, Burstyn I, Kromhout H, Gardiner K

2005

• Academic occupational medicine: its role and its future
  Occup Med (Lond) 2005; 55(4): 247-249
  Agius R

• Preference of distance learning methods among post-graduate occupational physicians and hygienists
  Occup Med (Lond) 2005; 55(4): 312-318
  Burgess G, Holt A, Agius R

• The lagged effect of cold temperature and wind chill on cardiorespiratory mortality in Scotland
  Occup Environ Med 2005; 62(10): 702-710
  Carder M, McNamee R, Beverland I, Elton R, Cohen GR, Boyd J, Agius RM

• The occupational medicine agenda: routes and standards of specialization in occupational medicine in Europe
  Occup Med (Lond) 2005; 55: 308-311
  Cashman C, Slovak A

• A study of work-related musculoskeletal case reports to The Health and Occupation Reporting network (THOR) from 2002 to 2003
  Occup Med (Lond) 2005; 55(4): 268-274
  Chen Y, Turner S, Hussey L, Agius R

• The reported incidence of work-related ill-health in (2002-2003)
  Occup Med (Lond) 2005; 55(4): 252-261
  Chen Y, Turner S, McNamee R, Ramsay CN, Agius RM

• Physicians' beliefs in the assessment of work attribution when reporting musculoskeletal disorder.
  Occup Med (Lond) 2005; 55(4): 298-307
  Chen Y, Agius R, McNamee R, Turner S, Taylor S, Fulluck L, Lines S, Roberts C, Hussey L  

• The Distance Learning Courses in Occupational Medicine - 20 years and onwards
  Occup Med (Lond) 2005; 55(4): 319-323
  Agius RM

• Interpretation of variations in fine, coarse and black smoke particlate matter concentrations in northern European city
  Atmos Environ 2005; 39: 3711-3718
  Heal MR, Hibbs L, Agius RM, Beverland I

• Total and ater soluble trace metal content of urban background PM10, PM25 and black smoke in Edinburgh
  Atmos Environ 2005; 39: 1417-1430
  Heal MR, Hibbs L, Agius RM, Beverland I

• Relationship between chemical structure and the occupational asthma hazard of low molecular weight organic compounds
  Occup Environ Med 2005; 62(4): 243-250
  Jarvis J, Seed MJ, Elton R, Sawyer L, Agius R

• Quantitative trait locus analysis reveals two intragenic sites that influence O⁶-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase activity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells
  Carcinogenesis 2005; 26(8): 1473-1480
  Margison GP, Heighway J, Pearson S, McGown G, Thorncroft MR, Watson AJ, Harrison KL, Lewis SJ, Rohde K, Barber PV, O'Donnell P, Povey AC, Santibáñez Koref MF

• Paraoxynase polymorphisms and self-reported chronic ill-health in farmers dipping sheep
  Occup Med (Lond) 2005; 55: 282-286
  Povey A, Mackness MI, Durrington PN, Dippnall M, Smith AE, Mackness B, Cherry NM

• Metabolic gene polymorphisms and lung cancer risk in non-smokers An update of the GSEC study
  Mutat Res 2005; 592(1-2): 45-57
  Raimondi S, Boffetta P, Anttila S, Brockmoller J, Butkiewicz D, Cascorbi I, Clapper ML, Dragani TA, Garte S, Gsur A, Haidinger G, Hirvonen A, Ingelman-Sundberg M, Kalina I, Lan Q, Leoni VP, Marchand LL, London SJ, Neri M, Povey AC, Rannug A, Reszka E, Ryberg D, Risch A, Romkes M, Ruano-Ravina A, Schoket B, Spinola M, Sugimura H, Wu X, Taioli E

• Glutathione S-transferase M1, T1 and P1polymorphisms and bladder cancer risk in Egyptians
  Int J Biol Markers 2005; 20(1): 69-72
  Saad AA, O'Connor PJ, Mostafa MH, Metwalli NE, Cooper DP, Povey AC, Margison GP

• Workplace exposures and employment patterns in adult onset asthmatics and diabetes
  Occup Med (Lond) 2005; 55: 287-291
  Turner S, Cherry N, Robinson J

• Work-related infectious disease reported to the Occupational Disease Intelligence Network and The Health and Occupation Reporting network in the (2000-2003)
  Occup Med (Lond) 2005; 55(4): 275-281
  Turner S, Lines S, Chen Y, Hussey L, Agius R

• The incidence of work-related illness in the health and social work sector: The Health and Occupation Reporting network 2002-2003.
  Occup Med (Lond) 2005; 55(4): 262-267
  Walsh L, Turner S, Lines S, Hussey L, Chen Y, Agius R

2004

• Work-related mental ill health and development of the surveillance of occupational stress and mental illness (SOSMI) reporting scheme
  Psychiatric Bulletin 2004; 28: 174-176
  Agius R, Turner S

• Health protection and sustainable development
  BMJ 2004; 328(7454): 1450-1451
  Ayres JG, Agius R

• Retrospective noise estimates for British nuclear workers using an alternative approach
  Ann Occup Hyg 2004; 48(2): 117-127
  Burgess GL, Dippnall WM, Ravandi MR, Cherry NM

• Assessment of occupational exposure to radiofrequency fields and radiation
  Radiat Prot Dosimetry 2004; 111(2): 191-203
  Cooper TG, Allen SG, Blackwell RP, Litchfield I, Mann SM, Pope JM, van Tongeren MJ

• Environmental tobacco smoke
  Occup Environ Med 2004; 61(5): 385-386
  Edwards PR, van Tongeren M, Watson A, Gee I, Edwards RE

• Driving after stroke: A study of recollection of advice and compliance with guidelines
  International Journal of Therapy Rehabilitation 2004; 11(8): 355-358
  Johnston J, Datta Chaudhuri M, Stocks J

• Reduced MGMT activity in human colorectal adenomas is associated with K-ras GC->AT transition mutations in a population exposed to methylating agents
  Carcinogenesis 2004; 25(7): 1243-1247
  Lees NP, Harrison KL, Hall CN, Margison GP, Povey AC

• Associations between smoking, GST genotypes and N7-methylguanine levels in DNA extracted from bronchial lavage cells
  Mutat Res 2004; 559(1-2): 11-18
  Lewis SJ, Cherry NM, Niven RM, Barber PV, Povey AC

• Association of metabolic gene polymorphisms with alcohol consumption in controls
  Biomarkers 2004; 9(2): 180-189
  Raimondi S, Benhamou S, Coutelle C, Garte S, Hayes R, Kiemeney L, Lazarus P, Marchand LL, Morita S, Povey A, Romkes M, Zijno A, Taioli E

• Attitudes and access to electronic exchange of information on occupational disease
  Occup Med (Lond) 2004; 54(5): 316-321
  Rogers JE, Agius RM, Garwood C, Rector AL, Chen Y, Hussey L, Turner S

• Continuing professional development of occupational medicine practitioners: a needs assessment
  Occup Med (Lond) 2004; 54: 14-20
  Turner S, Hobson J, D'Auria D, Beach J

• Assessing occupational and domestic ELF magnetic field exposure in the UK adult brain tumour study: results of a feasibility study
  Radiat Prot Dosimetry 2004; 108(3)
  van Tongeren M, Mee T, Whatmough P, Broad L, Maslanyj M, Allen S, Muir K, McKinney P

2003

• Assessment of appropriateness and verification of interventions in the professional practice of the occupational physician
  G Ital Med Lav Ergon 2003; 25(3): 285-289
  Agius R, Franco G

• Musculoskeletal occupational surveillance scheme (MOSS)
  British Society for Rheumatology Newsletter 2003 July; 2003(2)
  Agius R, Turner S

• Commentary: variability in workplace exposures and the design of efficient measurement and control strategies
  Ann Occup Hyg 2003; 47(2): 95-99
  Burdorf A, van Tongeren M

• Occupational disease in the British Construction industry, 1996-2000
  Tijdschrift voor toegepaste Arbowetenschap (Journal of Applied Science on Working Conditions) 2003; 16(1): 2-4
  Chen Y, Cherry N, McDonald JC

• Associations between tissue-specific DNA alkylation, DNA repair and cell proliferation in the colon and colon tumour yield in mice treated with 1,2-dimethylhydrazine
  Carcinogenesis 2003; 24(3): 527-533
  Jackson PE, O'Connor PJ, Cooper DP, Margison GP, Povey AC

• How important is personal exposure assessment in the epidemiology of air pollutants?
  Occup Environ Med 2003; 60(2): 143-144
  Kromhout H, van Tongeren M

• Cotinine levels and self-reported smoking status in patients attending a bronchoscopy clinic
  Biomarkers 2003; 8(3-4): 218-228
  Lewis SJ, Cherry NM, McL NR, Barber PV, Wilde K, Povey AC

• Paraoxonase and susceptibility to organophosphorus poisoning in farmers dipping sheep
  Pharmacogenetics 2003; 13(2): 81-88
  Mackness B, Durrington P, Povey A, Thomson S, Dippnall M, Mackness M, Smith T, Cherry N

• Assessing exposure misclassification by expert assessment in multicentre occupational studies
  Epidemiology 2003; 14(5): 585-592
  Mannetje A, Fevotte J, Fletcher T, Brennan P, Legoza J, Szeremi M, Paldy A, Brzeznicki S, Gromiec J, Ruxanda-Artenie C, Stanescu-Dumitru R, Ivanov N, Shterengorz R, Hettychova L, Krizanova D, Cassidy A, van Tongeren M, Boffetta P

• Variability and regulation of 0⁶-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase
  Carcinogenesis 2003; 24(4): 625-635
  Margison GP, Povey AC, Kaina B, Santibáñez Koref MF

• Smoking behaviour in year 8 pupils: baseline characteristics of the UK ESFA longitudinal study
  International Journal of Health Promotion and Education 2003; 41(1): 4-13
  Nahit L, Fielder A, Charlton A, Mudde A, Povey AC

• Occupational contact dermatitis to nickel: experience of British dermatologists (EPIDERM) and occupational physicians (OPRA) surveillance schemes
  Occup Environ Med 2003; 60: 954-957
  Shum KW, Meyer J, Chen Y, Cherry N, Gawkrodger DJ

• Occupational Physicians Reporting Activity (OPRA)
  Faculty of Occupational Medicine Newsletter 2003; 10: 3
  Turner S

• OPRA (Occupational Physicians Reporting Activity) Update from 2002
  Society of Occupational Medicine Newsletter 2003; 94: 17-18
  Turner S

• Risk of hypospadias in relation to maternal occupational exposure to potential endocrine disrupting chemicals
  Occup Environ Med 2003; 60(8): 543-550
  Vrijheid M, Armstrong B, Dolk H, van Tongeren M, Botting B