Proportionate mortality study of golf course superintendents

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 501-506

  Kross, Burton C ^a   Burmeister, Leon F ^a   Ogilvie, Linda K ^a   Fuortes, Laurence J ^a   Fu, Chun Mei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

brain cancer; golf course workers; lymphoma; mortality; pesticides; prostate cancer; smoking related diseases

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; EMPHYSEMA; HUMAN; LARGE INTESTINE CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PROSTATE CANCER; SMOKING;

AGRICULTURE; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; GOLF; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029912382     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199605)29:5<501::AID-AJIM8>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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