Diet as a confounder of the association between air pollution and female lung cancer: Hong Kong studies on exposures to environmental tobacco smoke, incense, and cooking fumes as examples

Lung Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages

  Koo, Linda C ^a,b   Ho, John H C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Nam Long Hospital   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Chinese; Chronic bronchitis; Cooking fumes; Dietary intake; ETS; Females; Incense; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

AIR POLLUTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIET; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029981408     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5002(96)90210-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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