Risk factors for systemic illnesses following agricultural exposures to restricted organophosphates in California, 1984-1988

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 572-579

  Weinbaum, Zipora ^a,b   Schenker, Marc B ^a   Gold, Ellen B ^a   Samuels, Steven J ^a   O'Malley, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; farming; organophosphates; pesticides

Indexed keywords

ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; COMA; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE TWITCH; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SALIVATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; CALIFORNIA; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0030989475     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199705)31:5<572::AID-AJIM12>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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