Peer-reviewed research published in academic journals
Ryann E Yeo, Fanni R Eros, Paul A Demers, Jeavana Sritharan. Risk of Raynaud’s Phenomenon Among Workers in the Occupational Disease…
Lily X. Yang, Tracy L. Kirkham, Laura Boksman, Anne-Marie Nicol, Paul A. Demers. Characterizing Radon Among Public Buildings and Small/Medium-Sized…
This study aimed to identify Ontario workers at elevated risk for CTS and to explore sex differences in CTS risk among workers.
Daniel R S Middleton, Roland Wedekind, Amy L Hall, Eero Suonio, Nathan DeBono, Roel Vermeulen, Lin Fritschi, Patricia A Stewart,…
Andrew Zarnke, Sarah Rhodes, Nathan DeBono, Colin Berriault, Sandra C Dorman. Am J Ind Med. 2024 Oct;67(10):933-941. Background: A retrospective…
Stephanie Ziembicki, Tracy L Kirkham, Paul A Demers, Victoria H Arrandale. J Occup Environ Hyg.2024 Oct 3:1-10. Online ahead of…
Victoria H. Arrandale, Colin Berriault, Chaojie Song, Nathan DeBono, Paul A Demers. Am J Ind Med. 2024 Oct 14. Online…
This study aimed to estimate the risk of opioid-related poisonings and mental and behavioural disorders by occupation and industry within a cohort of 1.7 million formerly injured workers.
This study aimed to identify occupational and industry groups associated with an elevated incidence of leukemia using a diverse cohort of workers’ compensation claimants from Ontario, Canada.
This study aimed to estimate cancer risk using general population reference rates to evaluate the impact that the comparison population has on findings from our surveillance program.
Johan Ohlander, Hans Kromhout, Roel Vermeulen, Lützen Portengen, Benjamin Kendzia, Barbara Savary, Domenico Cavallo, Andrea Cattaneo, Enrica Migliori, Lorenzo Richiardi,…
This study aimed to compare the incidence of opioid-related harms among a cohort of formerly injured workers to the general population in Ontario, Canada.
This study aimed to identify at-risk occupations and sex diferences for COPD risk.
This study aimed to examine sex differences in lung cancer risk across various occupations, with an emphasis on the female workforce.
This study aimed to investigate cancer risks among paramedics in a large cohort of Ontario workers.
Chung J, Demers PA, Kalenge S, Kirkham TL. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 2020. 17(1):38-46. Firefighters are potentially exposed…
Behrens T, Ge C, Vermeulen R, et al. Occupational exposure to nickel and hexavalent chromium and the risk of lung…
Olsson A, Guha N, Bouaoun L, et al. Occupational Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Lung Cancer Risk: Results from…
This study aimed to characterise cancer incidence among firefighters and police.
Nguyen LV, Diamond ML, Kalenge S, Kirkham TL, Holness DL, Arrandale VH. Environmental Science & Technology 2022. 56(5):3193–3203. Personal exposure…
Mofidi A, Tompa E, Kalcevich C, McLeod C, Lebeau M, Song C, Kim J, Demers PA. International Journal of Environmental…
Hovanec J, Siemiatycki J, Conway DI, et al. Application of two job indices for general occupational demands in a pooled…
This study aimed to characterize detailed patterns of mesothelioma and asbestosis incidence in the workforce as part of an occupational disease surveillance program in Ontario, Canada.
This study aimed to estimate associations between occupation and industry of employment and AMI risk among workers in Ontario, Canada.
Guha N, Bouaoun L, Kromhout H, et al. Lung cancer risk in painters: results from the SYNERGY pooled case-control study…
Blagrove-Hall N, Berriault C, Jardine KJ, Demers PA, Arrandale VH. Annals of Work Exposures and Health. 2021 Jun;65(9):1040-1049. Objectives: To use…
Kalenge S, Kirkham TL, Nguyen LV, Holness DL, Arrandale VH. Annals of work exposures and health. 2021 Mar 3;65(2):162-166. Objectives: The…
Sanaat S, Holness DL, Arrandale VH. Annals of work exposures and health. 2021 Mar 3;65(2):225-229. Objectives: In recent years, nail salons have…
This study aimed to evaluate cancer risk among workers employed in occupations and industries with these exposures as part of an ongoing surveillance programme in Ontario, Canada.
Richardson DB, Rage E, Demers PA, Do MT, DeBono N, Fenske N, Deffner V, Kreuzer M, Samet J, Wiggins C,…
This study examined employment in mining occupations and industries and its association with neurological disease incidence in a linkage cohort from Ontario.
Ge C, Peters S, Olsson A, et al. Respirable crystalline silica exposure, smoking, and lung cancer subtype risks. A pooled…
Ge C, Peters S, Olsson A, et al. Diesel engine exhaust exposure, smoking, and lung cancer subtype risks. A pooled…
This study highlights better ways for epidemiologists to measure and communicate the health impact of potential policy choices.
Harris MA, MacLeod J, Kim J, Pahwa M, Tjepkema M, Peters P, Demers PA. Ann Work Expo Health. 2020 April…
Ge CB, Kim J, Labrèche F, Heer E, Song C, Arrandale VH, Pahwa M, Peters CE, Demers PA. Int Arch…
Mofidi A, Tompa E, Mortazavi SB, Esfahanipour A, Demers PA. BMC Public Health 2020; 20(210). Background Construction workers are at…
Rage E, Richardson DB, Demers PA, Do M, Fenske N, Kreuzer M, Samet J, Wiggins C, Schubauer-Berigan MK, Kelly-Reif K,…
Peters CE, Kim J, Song C, Heer E, Arrandale VH, Pahwa M, Labrèche F, McLeod CB, Davies HW, Ge CB,…
This study utilized the Occupational Disease Surveillance System (ODSS), derived from administrative data, to investigate dermatitis risk among industry and occupation groups in Ontario.
Pahwa M, Labrèche F, Kim J, Harris MA, Song C, Peters CE, Arrandale VH, Davies H, McLeod CB, Demers PA….
This study uses occupation and prostate cancer information from a large surveillance cohort in Ontario that linked workers' compensation claim data to administrative health databases.
Labrèche F, Kim J, Song C, Pahwa M, Ge CB, Arrandale VH, McLeod CB, Peters CE, Lavoué J, Davies HW,…
This paper provides examples of the counting process syntax and programming statements that apply to Recurrent-Event analysis in PROC PHREG.
Using a retrospective cohort design, this study examines the risks of lung cancer by histological subtypes associated with exposure to radon decay products among the Ontario Uranium Miners cohort.
Nguyen LV, Diamond ML, Venier M, Stubbings WA, Romanak K, Bajard L, Melymuk L, Jantunen LM, Arrandale VH. Environment International…
Stubbings WA, Nguyen LV, Romanak K, Jantunen L, Melymuk L, Arrandale VH, Diamond ML, Venier M. The Science of the…
This article outlines the purpose and approach for creating the Occupational Disease Surveillance System, and provides an overview of select results for different health outcomes generated by this system.
This study examines associations between asthma and hundreds of jobs in Ontario.
The recently established ODSS was used to examine breast cancer risk in women and men by occupation and industry.
This current surveillance system identified several established high-risk groups for lung cancer and could be used for ongoing surveillance of occupational lung cancer in Ontario.
Navaranjan G, Chambers D, Thompson PA, Do M, Berriault C, Villeneuve PJ, Demers PA. Journal of Radiological Protection 39:136. The…
Kim J, Peters CE, Arrandale VH, Labrèche F, Ge CB, McLeod CB, Song C, Lavoué J, Davies HW, Nicol A-M,…
The results of this study show the need to reduce the use and emission of select carcinogens in priority industry sectors.
Pahwa M, Labrèche F, Demers PA. Scand J Work Environ Health. 2018 Jul 1;44(4):432-435. Objectives: This paper aims to compare…
Mofidi A, Tompa E, Spencer J, Kalcevich C, Peters CE, Kim J, Song C, Mortazavi SB, Demers PA. J Occup…
Jung YL, Tompa E, Longo C, Kalcevich C, Kim J, Song C, Demers P. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine….
This study uses one of the largest Canadian worker cohorts to examine occupation, industry, and prostate cancer and to assess patterns of prostate cancer rates.
Arrandale VH, Kalenge S, Nguyen LV, Kirkham TL, Diamond ML, Holness DL. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2018. Introduction: Nail salons have…
Guo J, Stubbings WA, Romanak K, Nguyen LV, Jantunen L, Melymuk L, Arrandale VH, Diamond ML, Venier M. Environmental science…
Venier M, Stubbings WA, Guo J, Romanak K, Nguyen LV, Jantunen L, Melymuk L, Arrandale VH, Diamond ML, Hites RA….
Kramer DM, Haynes E, McMillan K, Lightfoot NE, Holness DL. SAGE Research Methods Cases Part 2. 2018. The communities of…
Kushner R, Kramer DM, Holness DL. SAGE Research Methods Cases Part 2. 2018. This case study describes a pilot study…
Kushner R, Kramer DM, Holness DL. Work 2018 60(3):365-384. Background: Ontario’s occupational health and safety prevention system has identified a need…
The researchers studied the association between lung cancer and the level of time-weighted average occupational social prestige as well as its lifetime trajectory by using data from the international pooled SYNERGY case-control study.
The aim of this study was to explore lung cancer risk among firefighters, with adjustment for smoking.
Hovanec J, Siemiatycki J, Conway DI, et al. Lung cancer and socioeconomic status in a pooled analysis of case-control studies….
Findings from this large international case-control consortium indicate that after accounting for co-occurring respiratory diseases, chronic bronchitis and emphysema continue to have a positive association with lung cancer.
Bigert C, Gustavsson P, Straif K, et al. Lung cancer risk among cooks when accounting for tobacco smoking: a pooled analysis of case-control studies from Europe, Canada, New Zealand, and China.
The researchers examined lung cancer risk among bricklayers within SYNERGY, a large international pooled analysis of case-control studies on lung cancer and the joint effects of occupational carcinogens.
To assess the independent effects of duration and intensity of exposure on cancer risk, the researchers explored effect modification of the association of cumulative exposure and cancer risk by intensity of exposure.
The SYNERGY project database was used to assess welding as a risk factor for developing lung cancer.
The authors studied lung cancer risks among bakers and baking-related occupations in the SYNERGY pooled case-control database from 16 countries.
Our objective was to evaluate the lung cancer risk among hairdressers while adjusting for smoking and other confounders in a pooled database of 16 case-control studies conducted in Europe, Canada, China, and New Zealand between 1985 and 2010.
Slavik CE, Kalenge S, Demers PA. Recent trends in the industrial use and emission of known and suspected carcinogens in Ontario, Canada. Reviews on Environmental Health 2017 Sept.
Arrandale VH, Kalenge S, Demers PA. Silica exposure in a mining exploration operation. Arch Environ Occup Health. 2017 Dec.
A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate potential associations between firefighting and police occupations, and prostate cancer incidence and mortality.
This study presents associations between occupation, industry and prostate cancer, while accounting for individual level factors.
A newly created exposure database was available containing occupational isocyanate measurements spanning 1981-1996 from Ontario and British Columbia (BC)-two of the largest provinces in Canada.
Kramer DM, Holness DL, Haynes E, McMillan K, Berriault C, Kalenge S, Lightfoot N. Work 2017:58(2);149-162.
MacLeod JS, Harris MA, Tjepkema M, Peters PA, Demers PA. Safety and Health at Work. 2017 Sep;8(3):258-266. Background: Welders are exposed…
Tompa E, Kalcevich C, McLeod C, Lebeau M, Song C, McLeod K, Kim J, Demers PA. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2017.
Pahwa M, Harris MA, MacLeod J, Tjepkema M, Peters PA, Demers PA. Cancer Epidemology 2017 Aug;49:144-151. Background: Sedentary behaviour is a…
Hadkhale K, MacLeod J, Demers PA, Martinsen JI, Weiderpass E, Kjaerheim K, Lynge E, Sparen P, Tryggvadottir L, Harris MA,…
Kachuri L, Harris MA, MacLeod J, Tjepkema M, Peters PA, Demers PA. BMC Cancer. 2017 May;17(1):343. Background: Agricultural workers may be…
Olsson AC, Vermeulen R, Schüz J, et al. Exposure-response analyses of asbestos and lung cancer subtypes in a pooled analysis…
Navaranjan G, Berriault C, Do M, Villeneuve PJ, Demers PA. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2016;73:838-845. Objectives: The study objectives were to extend…
Sritharan J, Demers PA, Harris SA, Cole DC, Kreiger N, Sass-Kortsak A, Lightfoot N. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2016.
Taeget D et al. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health 2015;41(5):467-77.
Setton E, Veerman Basil, Erickson A, Deschenes S, Cheasley R, Poplawski K, Demers P, Keller C. Environmental Health 2015 Aug;14:69.
Portier CJ et al. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2016.
Pearce NE et al. Environmental Health Perspectives 2015;123(6):507-14.
Neil-Sztramko SE, Gotay CC, Demers PA, and Campbell KL. Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine 2016; 58(1):94-100.
Latifovic L, Villeneuve PJ, Parent M-É, Johnson KC, Kachuri L, the Canadian Cancer Registries Epidemiology Group, Harris SA. Cancer Medicine. 2015 Dec;4(12):1948-62.
Koehoorn M, Tamburic L, Xu F, Alamgir AH, Demers PA, McLeod CB. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2015;72(6):413-20.
King WD, Friedenreich CM, Brenner DR, De P, Demers PA, Hystad P, Nutall R, Villeneuve PJ, Walter SD. Preventive Medicine 2015;76:132-134.
Kachuri L, Villeneuve PJ, Parent M-É, Johnson KC, the Canadian Cancer Registries Epidemiology Group, Harris SA. Environmental Health 2016 Jan;15:4.
Hon C-Y, Teschke K, Shen H, Demers PA, Venners S. International Archives of Occupupational and Environmental Health 2015 Oct;88(7):933-41.
Grundy A, Harris SA, Demers PA, Johnson KC, Agnew R, Canadian Cancer Registries Epidemiology Research Group, Villeneuve PJ. Cancer Medicine 2016 Mar;5(3):586-596.
Demers PA. Annals of Occupational Hygiene 2016;60(1):5-7.
Kramer DM, McMillan K, Gross E, Bradley M, Holness DL. New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 2015;25(3):377-410.
Kramer DM, Tenkate T, Strahlendorf P, Kushner R, Gardner A, Holness DL. Implementation Science 2015;10:97.
Hohenadel K, Raj P, Demers PA, Zahm SH, Blair A. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 2015 Mar;58(3):276-81. Introduction: Since the early…
Jones MK, Harris MA, Peters PA, Tjepkema M, Demers PA. Am J Ind Med. 2014 Aug;57(8):896-905. Background: Following preliminary evidence from…
Neil SE, Pahwa M, Demers PA, Gotay CC. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health 2014.
Hon C-Y, Teschke K, Demers PA, Venners S. Annals of Occupational Hygiene 2014.
Kachuri L, Villeneuve PJ, Parent ME, Johnson KC, Harris SA. International Journal of Cancer 2014;135(1):138-148.
Hardt JS, Vermeulen R, Peter S, Kromhout H, McLaughlin JR, Demers PA. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2014;71(1):282-288.
Raj P, Hohenadel K, Demers PA, Zahm SH, Blair A. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 2014;57(3):259-264.
Navaranjan G, Hohenadel K, Blair A, Demers PA, Spinelli JJ, Pahwa P, McLaughlin JR, Dosman JA, Ritter L, Harris SA. Cancer Causes & Control 2013;24(9):1661-1673.
Hon C-Y, Venners S, Demers PA, Teschke K. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 2013;10(7):374-383.
Del Bianco A, Demers PA. Canadian Medical Association Journal Open 2013;1(3):e1-e6.
Kachuri L, Demers PA, Blair A, Spinelli JJ, Pahwa M, McLaughlin JR, Pahwa P, Dosman JA, Harris SA. International Journal of Cancer 2013;133(8):1846-58.
Peters CE, Nicol AM, Demers PA. Canadian Journal of Public Health 2012;103(3):223-226.
Kramer DM, Wells RP, Carlan N, Aversa T, Bigelow P, Dixon S, McMillan K. International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics 2013;19(1)41-62.
Wong I, Demers PA, McLeod C. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health 2011;37(1):54-61.
Boffetta P, et al. Cancer Causes and Control 2011;22(3):463-468.
Pahwa M, Harris SA, Hohenadel K, McLaughlin JR, Spinelli JJ, Pahwa P, Dosman JA, Blair A. International Journal of Cancer 2012; 131(11):2650-2659.
Hohenadel K, Harris SA, McLaughlin JR, Spinelli JJ, Pahwa P, Dosman JA, Demers PA, Blair A. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2011; 8(6):2320-2330.
Kirkham TL, Koehoorn MW, McLeod CB, Demers PA. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2011; 68(1):30-35.
Gorman Ng M, Stjernberg E, Koehoorn M, Demers PA, Davies HW. Annals of Occupational Hygiene 2011; 55(7):752-763.
Constanza Camargo M, Stayner LT, Straif K, Reina M, Al-Alem U, Demers PA, Landrigan PJ. Environmental Health Perspectives 2011; 119(9):1211-1217.
Hohenadel K, Pichora E, Marrett L, Bukvic D, Brown J, Harris SA, Demers PA, Blair A. Chronic Diseases and Injuries in Canada, 2011; 31(4):147-151
Blair A, Marrett L, Beane Freeman L. Environmental Health 2011; 10(Suppl 1):S9.
