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Environmental Ergonomics XII<br />

Igor B. Mekjavic, Stelios N. Kounalakis & Nigel A.S. Taylor (Eds.), © BIOMED, Ljubljana <strong>2007</strong><br />

There are indications that subjects with a reduced finger CIVD response are more prone to get<br />

local cold injuries (Daanen and Van Der Struijs, 2005), but more epidemiological research is<br />

needed to establish a firm relationship.<br />

Although it was observed that an early CIVD onset was associated with initially superior<br />

manual performance (Bensel and Lockhart, 1974), recent work shows that CIVD does not<br />

seem to increase manual dexterity during work in the cold (Geurts et al., 2005a).<br />

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