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Document ID (ISN)22465
CIS number 75-585
ISSN - Serial title 0303-8408 - SPM - Sozial- und Präventivmedizin - Social and Preventive Medicine - Médecine sociale et préventive
Year 1974
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Gubéran E., Rougemont A.
Title Employment of women involving prolonged upright posture - Results of an epidemiological study on 531 saleswomen
Original title Travail féminin et orthostatisme - Résultats d'une étude épidémiologique auprès de 531 vendeuses. [in French]
Bibliographic information July-Aug. 1974, Vol.19, No.4, p.279-283. Illus. 31 ref.
Abstract To study certain aspects of work involving standing, the authors divided the subjects into 3 groups: immobile standing posture, walking, seated. The highest percentages of pain in the legs (26%), feet (9%) and back (8%) and of prevalence of varicose veins were observed in the "immobile standing" group. Use of sleeping pills, considered as indirect evidence of fatigue, was also found to be more frequent among this group. Among a group of 35 female hospital employees observed in a preliminary survey, average increase in weight during the working day was significantly greater for the "immobile standing" category. The authors conclude that stimulation of the renin-aldosterone system occurs, and put forward the hypothesis of a process furthering the onset of various disorders such as arterial hypertension, cardiac insufficiency and oedema of various origins.
Descriptors (primary) standing posture; backache; physical fatigue; women; lower extremity disorders
Descriptors (secondary) Switzerland; retail trade; survey; varicose veins
Document type -
Subject(s) Occupational physiology
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Diseases of the musculoskeletal system
Fatigue
Work posture