Mortality among different occupational groups of workers with pneumoconiosis: Results from a register-based cohort study

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 718-725

  Starzyński, Zygmunt ^a   Marek, Kazimierz ^b   Kujawska, Aleksandra ^b   Szymczak, Wieslaw ^a  

^a NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Poland)

Author keywords

lung cancer; occupational disease; pneumoconiosis; silica

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CERAMIC INDUSTRY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COAL MINING; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METALLURGY; MINER; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CERAMICS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COAL MINING; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IRON; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; POISONING; POLAND; REGISTRIES; SILICOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VASCULAR DISEASES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0029907812     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199612)30:6<718::AID-AJIM8>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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