Occupational and environmental medicine
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Multicenter Study
Dose-response relations between occupational exposures to physical and psychosocial factors and the risk of low back pain.
To assess dose-response relations between occupational exposures to physical and psychosocial factors and the risk of low back pain. ⋯ Occupational exposure to trunk flexion over 45 degrees appears to be a risk factor for low back pain with disability among persons employed in nursing homes and homes for the elderly in the Netherlands.