Respiratory findings in workers employed in the brick-manufacturing industry

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 814-820

  Zuskin, Eugenija ^a   Mustajbegovic, Jadranka ^a   Schachter, E Neil ^b   Kern, Josipa ^a   Doko Jelinic, Jagoda ^a   Godnic Cvar, Jasminka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS SECRETION; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; EXPIRATORY RESERVE VOLUME; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WORK SCHEDULE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; CROATIA; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SMOKING; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0031714053     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199809000-00011     Document Type: Article

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