Occupational and environmental hazards associated with lung cancer

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 202-213

  Jöckel, Karl Heinz ^a   Ahrens, Wolfgang ^a   Wichmann, Heinz Erich ^b   Becher, Heiko ^a   Bolm audorff, Ulrich ^c   Jahn, Ingeborg ^a   Molik, Beate ^d   Greiser, Eberhard ^a   Timm, Jürgen ^e  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY BIPS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^c Dept of Occupational Safety Division of Occupational Medicine ^*  (Germany)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD; INTERVIEW TECHNIQUE; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE DATA;

GERMANY;

CARCINOGEN; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOUNDRY; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LATENT PERIOD; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAL INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMELTER; SMOKING HABIT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0026614144     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/21.2.202     Document Type: Article

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