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We hope you enjoy issue 1 of the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, an internationally renowned journal in the field of occupational health and safety. It contains three open access articles including a review of measurement properties of self-reported health-related work-functioning instruments among workers with common mental disorders, a 21-year follow-up study on estimation of life expectancies and loss-of-life expectancies for workers with permanent occupational disabilities of the extremities, and a 16-year follow-up study on occupational noise exposure, social class, and risk of ischemic heart disease and all-cause mortality - the subject of this issue's editorial.

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In the editorial of the latest issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health (number 1, 2012):

Noise and ischemic heart disease, by Bonde JP, Kolstad HA

The incidence and mortality of ischemic heart disease (IHD) declined dramatically in affluent countries from the early 1980s until at least the mid 1990s (1). This change in occurrence is ascribed to improved lifestyle factors, primarily a decrease in smoking and an increase in leisure-time exercise, and better care of the coronary heart patient (2). The downward shift in incidence has taken place in spite of the escalating obesity epidemic and a high prevalence of occupational and environmental noise exposure ... (Read the whole text)