Urinary nickel excretion in populations living in the proximity of two Russian nickel refineries: A Norwegian-Russian population-based study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 503-511

  Smith Sivertsen, Tone ^a   Tchachtchine, Valeri ^b   Lund, Eiliv ^a   Bykov, Vladimir ^b   Thomassen, Yngvar ^c   Norseth, Tor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORTH WEST PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Environmental epidemiology; Exposure assessment; Industrial emissions; Nickel; Norway; Occupational exposure; Russia; Smoking; Urine

Indexed keywords

NICKEL; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METAL INDUSTRY; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

KOLA;

EID: 0031714415     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.98106503     Document Type: Article

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