Miners with clinically important declines in FEV1: Analysis of data from the U.S. national coal study

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 989-

  Wang, M L ^a,b   Petsonk, E L ^a,b   Attfield, M D ^a   Short, S R ^a   Beeckman, L F ^a   Bonnett, B ^a   Hankinson, J L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL;

ADULT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COAL MINING; COAL WORKER; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029811124     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1047322X.1996.10390001     Document Type: Article

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