Body Mass Index and Serum γ‐glutamyltransferase Level as Risk Factors for Injuries Related to Professional Horse Racing: A Prospective Study
| العنوان: | Body Mass Index and Serum γ‐glutamyltransferase Level as Risk Factors for Injuries Related to Professional Horse Racing: A Prospective Study |
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| المؤلفون: | Takeshi Tanigawa, Hiroyuki Noda, Hiroyasu Iso, Kazumasa Yamagishi, Hiroko Tobari |
| المصدر: | Journal of Occupational Health. 51:323-331 |
| بيانات النشر: | Wiley, 2009. |
| سنة النشر: | 2009 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Poison control, Body Mass Index, Horse behavior, Risk Factors, Internal medicine, Injury prevention, Animals, Humans, Medicine, Horses, Prospective Studies, Prospective cohort study, Physical Examination, Aged, Proportional Hazards Models, business.industry, Proportional hazards model, Hazard ratio, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, gamma-Glutamyltransferase, Middle Aged, Confidence interval, Athletic Injuries, Physical therapy, business, Body mass index |
| الوصف: | Prevention of horse-related injuries is considered difficult because horse behavior is unpredictable. Therefore, risk factors for injuries related to professional horse racing need to be investigated. We conducted a study to determine whether body mass index (BMI) and gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) levels are associated with professional horse racing-related injuries.A baseline healthy survey of 546 male grooms and exercise riders aged 40-70 yr working at Miho Training Center, the largest racing-horse training facility in Japan, was performed in May 2003. A total of 93 occupational injuries occurred from June 1, 2003 to December 31, 2005. The Cox proportional hazards model was used to examine associations between the risk of injury and BMI and GGT.Grooms and exercise riders with BMI20 kg/m2 or with BMIor =25 kg/m2 compared to BMI=20.0-22.9 kg/m(2) had 2.5 to 3.5-fold higher age-adjusted risks of injuries. The multivariate hazard ratios (95% confidence interval) after adjustment for age, GGT, smoking habit, and history of injuries were 3.5 (1.5 to 8.4) and 2.4 (1.2 to 4.8) for grooms, 3.1 (1.2 to 8.2) and 1.9 (0.4 to 10.1) for exercise riders, respectively. The age-adjusted hazard ratio of injuries for persons with GGTor =100 IU/l was 2.0 to 2.5-fold higher than for those with GGT60 IU/l. The multivariate hazard ratios were 1.9 (1.0 to 3.6) for grooms and 2.5 (1.0 to 6.2) for exercise riders.Low and high BMI and high GGT were associated with professional horse racing-related injuries. |
| تدمد: | 1348-9585 1341-9145 |
| DOI: | 10.1539/joh.l8158 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::b6182251d8a2034310ad17b5c8f67cd3 https://doi.org/10.1539/joh.l8158 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....b6182251d8a2034310ad17b5c8f67cd3 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 13489585 13419145 |
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| DOI: | 10.1539/joh.l8158 |