Musculo-skeletal diseases

Putz-Anderson, V. (1988), Cumulative Trauma Disorders A Manual for Musculo-Skeletal Diseases... 

In many countries, OCD ranks first among all notified occupational diseases and constitutes up to 30% of all occupational diseases for which compensation is payable. In some countries, this proportion has declined in recent years because other diseases (in particular musculo-skeletal diseases) have been recognized as occupational diseases. This caused an increase in the total number of notified occupational diseases and a decrease of the proportion of skin diseases, while the IRs remained about the same. To follow trends in incidence of work-related dermatoses recent data are needed. 

As the prevalence of obesity increases worldwide, so does the prevalence of associated co-morbidities type-2 diabetes, chronic obstructive sleep apnoea, cardiovascular disease (hyper-tension, coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure, stroke and peripheral vascular disease), fatty liver disease, various malignancies (Table 7.2), gallstones, subfertility, musculo-skeletal problems and depression. 

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