Prevalence and Risk Factors of Tendinitis and Related Disorders of the Distal Upper Extremity Among U.S. Workers: Comparison to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

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• Personal Author:
  Cameron L ; Petersen, Martin R. ; Tanaka, Shiro
• Description:
  Background: National estimates of tendinitis and related disorders of the distal upper extremity among U.S. workers have not been available with the exception of carpal tunnel syndrome. Methods: The Occupational Health Supplement Data of the 1988 National Health Interview Survey were analyzed for tendinitis and related disorders of the hand/wrist and elbow (distal upper extremity) using the Survey Data Analysis (SUDAAN) software. Results: Among the 30,074 respondents (statistically weighted population of 127 million) who had worked anytime during the previous 12 months, 0.46% (95% CI: 0.36, 0.56) reported that they experienced a prolonged hand discomfort which was called tendinitis, synovitis, tenosynovitis, deQuervain's disease, epicondylitis, ganglion cyst, or trigger finger, by a medical person. This corresponds to 588,000 persons (95% CI: 457,000; 712,000) reporting one of these disorders, 28% (or 164,000) of which were thought to be work-related by the medical person. Among various risk factors examined by multiple logistic regression analysis, bending/twisting of the hands/wrists at work and female gender were significantly associated with reporting of these disorders. Conclusions: By combining these cases with the previously reported cases of work-related carpal tunnel syndrome, we estimate that there were approximately 520,000 cases of work-related musculoskeletal disorders of the distal upper extremity among US workers in 1988. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Cumulative Trauma Disorders Epidemiology Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Arm-injuries Cumulative-trauma Cumulative-trauma-disorders Hand-injuries Humans Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Statistical-analysis
• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  328-335
• Volume:
  39
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20031532
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2001 Mar; 39(3):328-335
• Contact Point Address:
  Shiro Tanaka, NIOSH, Mail Stop R-21, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226
• Email:
  sxt6@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a0568a7af07c50540131340700ea3c7c9026841e3e1ba930af60c7fae08ab46277647c7c5635122a5437fe03e7f256943b4c46ede1ce4a92f7882dde896e872e
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