training might have a favorable effect on burnout among Japanese hospital nurses. (J Occup Health 2003; 45: 185-190)

Macrophages may phagocytose inhaled tungsten via CD163 and play an important role in forming the fibrotic lesion of hard metal lung disease with cytotoxic T lymphocytes.

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Symptom endorsements and response patterns of 1,862 Japanese adult workers (1,509 males and 353 females) to the Japanese adaptation of the State-TraitAnxiety Inventory Form Y (STAI-JY) items, were examined in this study. The mean STAI-JY State and Trait anxiety scores of Japanese workers were substantially higher than those of American workers reported in the Manual, due primarily to the much higher scores of Japanese workers in responding to the anxiety-absent items. The correlations between the State and Trait anxiety-present scales and those of their anxiety-absent scales' counterparts were higher than those between the State anxiety-present and -absent scales and those of their Trait scales' counterparts.These findings suggested that responses to anxietypresent and -absent items should be considered independently in scoring the STAI-JY scales in Japanese working adults.

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