Using alternative comparison populations to assess occupation-related mortality risk. Results for the high nickel alloys workers cohort

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 907-916

  Arena, Vincent C ^a   Sussman, Nancy B ^b   Redmond, Carol K ^a   Costantino, Joseph P ^a   Trauth, Jeanette M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICKEL;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL CARCINOGENESIS; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NICKEL; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0031727297     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199810000-00012     Document Type: Article

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