Mortality among white and nonwhite farmers in North Carolina, 1976-1978

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1985, Pages 391-402

  Delzell, Elizabeth ^a   Grufferman, Seymour ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural workers' diseases; Brain neoplasms; Leukemia; Melanoma; Mortality; Neoplasms; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; BRAIN CANCER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; FATALITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MELANOMA; MORTALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN CANCER; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGRICULTURE; CAUCASOID RACE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MORTALITY; NEGROID RACE; NEOPLASMS; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0021978439     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a114011     Document Type: Article

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