Industrial accidents are related to relative body weight: The Israeli CORDIS study

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 832-835

  Froom, Paul ^a   Melamed, Samuel ^b   Kristal Boneh, Estela ^b   Gofer, Daphne ^b   Ribak, Joseph ^b  

^a Occupational Health and Rehabilitation Institute Israel   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Accidents; Body mass index; Industrial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP; SMOKING;

EID: 0030461179     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.53.12.832     Document Type: Article

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