Alfred Franzblau

TL;DR: Criteria for the classification of carpal tunnel syndrome for use in epidemiologic studies were developed by means of a consensus process and reached agreement on several conceptual issues.

TL;DR: Patients who had an evaluation of the right upper extremity that included motor and sensory conduction studies of the median and ulnar nerves were reviewed and those individuals who were classified as obese were 2.5 times more likely than slender individuals (BMI < 20) to be diagnosed with CTS.

TL;DR: Repetitiveness of work was found to be significantly associated with prevalence of reported discomfort in the wrist, hand, or fingers, and an association was found between repetition of work and carpal tunnel syndrome.

TL;DR: The factors found to have the highest predictive value for identifying a person who is likely to develop an UET in the near future included age over 40, a BMI over 30, a complaint at baseline of a shoulder or neck discomfort, a history of CTS and a job with a higher shoulder posture rating.

TL;DR: It is estimated that the majority (>70%) of Hg in urine from individuals with <10 dental amalgams is derived from ingestion of MeHg in fish, suggesting that within populations that consume fish, urine total Hg concentrations may overestimate Hg exposure from personal dental amalgAMS.