While neck pain is generally believed to be of multifactorial origin [ 9], it remains unclear which factors place office workers, in particular, at higher risk.
The second important variable resulting from these analyses was managerial position, i.e. in all professional categories, those responsible for managing other people had significantly higher scores in the job attributes factor, as well as in the achievements factor (office workers only).
The majority of the many cited factors in office buildings can be categorized into those affecting visual comfort, thermal comfort, privacy, and views.
The site characteristic factors were office management, patient logistics, objectives, learning resources, clinic set-up and preceptor interaction.
We conducted a 1-year epidemiologic study in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning May 1997, to examine the associations between environmental factors and office workers' health.
Thirdly, both female gender and previous symptoms have been reported frequently as risk factors among office workers in the published literature [female gender: [ 6- 9, 13, 28]; previous symptoms: [ 4, 5, 28]].
In hypertensive patients uncontrolled by a previous monotherapy and with additional cardiovascular risk factors, the office DBP reduction observed after 18 weeks of treatment with zofenopril 30 or 60 mg plus HCTZ 12.5 mg once daily was similar to that of irbesartan 150 or 300 mg plus HCTZ 12.5 mg once daily.
The factors that place office workers at greater risk of developing neck pain are not understood.
Koichi Nakano, professor of Japanese politics at Sophia University in Tokyo, believes the visit is an attempt by Abe to underscore the strength of the US-Japan alliance "before Trump, who is a potentially destabilising factor, assumes office".
The end of the industry's frantic growth is a factor as office rents have been reduced and sublease space has increased to 33percentt of all vacancies in 2008, up from 20percentt in 2007, Mr. Kwong said.
