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Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 24/06/2020
1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  AMI
Country
 

  • Poland
Name
  Alicja Bortkiewicz
Institution
  Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine
Email
  alab@imp.lodz.pl
Phone
  +48426314588
Do you want to add another Principal Investigator of the Cohort
 

  • Add another Principal Investigator of the cohort
Name
  Elzbieta Gadzicka
Institution
  Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine
Email
  elag@imp.lodz.pl
Phone
  +48426314590
Name
  Alicja Bortkiewicz
Institution
  Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine
Email
  alab@imp.lodz.pl
Phone
  +48426314588
Name of committee
  Regional Biomedical Ethics Committee in Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine
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Contact Principal Investigator (name)
  Alicja Bortkiewicz
Data access policy (briefly describe)
  access to the data after personal contact with principal investigator
Is this cohort part of a consortium? (name consortium)
  no
Participation in pooled analyses
 

  • The cohort is potentially interested in participating in pooled analyses of (European) occupational cohort studies (note pooled analyses also includes remote decentralized analyses that would not require any transfer of primary data as well as meta-analyses).
Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
  Analysis of relationship between occupational factors and first myocardial infarction,
Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Prospective cohort
Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Hospital / patient-based
Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Other
Specify: Other
  workers from different occupations without myocardial infarction
Inclusion criteria
  All patients hospitalized due to first myocardial infarction at the Cardiac Clinics, Medical University of Łódź during the period of 12 months who accepted invitation to participate in the study
Exclusion criteria
  poor condition of health, refuse to participate
Enrollment
  Completed
Age range at entry (main cohort)
 

Minimum Maximum Mean
26 years 85 years 59.9±10.4 years

Age range at entry (subcohort)
 

Minimum Maximum Mean Please describe
26 77 52.2 ±7.1 Follow up study was performed only in people who were working till the first myocardial infarction (306 persons, 255 men and 51 women)

Men at enrollment
  550 (67%)
Women at enrollment
  266 (33%)
Children (<18 years) at enrollment
  no children
Men at last follow-up
  125
Women at last follow-up
  25
Children (<18 years) at last follow-up
  no children
Participation rate at enrollment (if known)
  77
Comments
  Follow up study was performed only in people who were working till the first myocardial infarction (306 persons, 255 men and 51 women). It was analyzed differences between group who return to work (18 women-15,7%, 97 men - 84,3%) and who didn't return (7 women 20,0%, 28 men - 15,7% )
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Active (contact with participants)
  • Other (specify)
Active (contact with participants) (specify)
 

  • by post and phone
Specify: Other
 

  • Data on deaths and information about the people who did not return questionnaires were obtained from the Department of Civil Affairs of the Ministry of Interior
First follow-up period (provide year)
  2008
Last follow-up period (provide year)
  2015
Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
  816 full cohort/306 subcohort
Participation at last follow-up (if known)
  49
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Questionnaire, Personal (Self-reporting or interview)
Occupational history/time frame
  Lifetime
Occupational coding performed
  No
Industry (specify coding system used)
 

  • none system was used
Types of exposure measurements
 

  • Other (specify)
Specify: Other
  questionnaires data
Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Self-report
Main categories
 

  • Dusts and fibres
  • Solvents
  • Pesticides
  • Metals and metal oxides
  • Other chemicals
  • Physical agents
  • Ergonomics, physical workload, and injury related
  • Psychosocial domains
  • Organisation of work including working time
Dusts and fibres | Fibres
 

  • Fibres (not specified)
Dusts and fibres | Inorganic dusts
 

  • Inorganic dusts, not specified
Dusts and fibres | Organic dusts
 

  • Organic dusts (not specified)
Solvents | Aliphatic and alicyclic hydrocarbon solvents
 

  • Other (specify)
Solvents | Aliphatic and alicyclic hydrocarbon solvents | Specify: Other
  petroleum oils,
Solvents | Aromatic hydrocarbon solvents
 

  • Other (specify)
Solvents | Aromatic hydrocarbon solvents | Specify: Other
  chloroprene rubber, varnishes, paints
Solvents | Other
 

  • Other
Solvents | Other | Specify: Other
  carbon disulfide,
Pesticides | Fungicides
 

  • Other (specify)
Pesticides | Fungicides | Specify: Other
  unidentified
Pesticides | Herbicides
 

  • Other (specify)
Pesticides | Herbicides | Specify: Other
  unidentified
Pesticides | Other
 

  • Other
Pesticides | Other | Specify: Other
  unidentified
Metals and metal oxides
 

  • Lead and all compounds
Other chemicals | Carbon monoxide
 

  • Carbon monoxide
Other chemicals | Second hand tobacco smoke at work
 

  • Second hand tobacco smoke at work (Environmental tobacco smoke - ETS)
Physical agents
 

  • Cold
  • Hand-arm vibration
  • Heat
  • Noise
  • Radiation
  • Whole body vibration
Physical agents | Radiation
 

  • Ionising
  • Non-ionising
  • Solar and ultraviolet
Ergonomics, physical workload, and injury related
 

  • Awkward work postures (e.g. kneeling/squatting, elevated arms, neck flection, back bent forward without support)
  • Physical work load (e.g. heavy lifting of people or objects, pushing/pulling)
  • Repetitive work movements
  • Sedentary work
  • Standing work
  • Work with video display units (VDU)
Psychosocial domains | Job task characteristics/organization of work
 

  • Career advancement opportunities
  • Psychological job demands
  • Role conflict/ambiguity/clarity
  • Social support at work from supervisors
  • Other (specify)
Psychosocial domains | Job task characteristics/organization of work | Specify: Other
  financial responsibility, responsibility for the safety and life of workersople, difficult decisions, lack of success
Physical agents | Work/non-work interface
 

  • Work-family (work-home) interface/conflict/balance
Organisation of work including working time | Employment conditions
 

  • Contract duration
  • Size of the workplace and company
  • Work contract type (i.e. permanent, term-contract, subcontract, temporary)
Organisation of work including working time | Shift work
 

  • Night (permanent or rotating)
  • Rotating (not night)
  • Regular/variable
Organisation of work including working time | Working hours
 

  • Duration
  • Regular/variable
4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED
Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs (specify)
  • Medical records
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)
Specify: Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs
  ECG, Holter monitoring, coronarography
Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)
Diagnostic groups based on ICD10
 

  • I Heart disease
I Heart disease
 

  • Acute myocardial infarction
Other health related outcomes
 

  • Lifestyle change
  • Quality of life/wellbeing
  • Work participation
Comments
  BMI, hipercholesterolemia, hiperglicemia,
6. Other Information
 

  • Alcohol
  • Anthropometry
  • Demographics
  • Diet
  • Education
  • Environmental, air pollution
  • Environmental other (specify)
  • Medical history
  • Physical exercise
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Smoking
Specify: Environmental other
  it was open question in the questionnaire, respondents indicated the harmful or annoying factors in the environment
Please describe plans that are funded or most likely to be funded
  In the case of getting founds, continuation of the study is planned