Mortality of a police cohort: 1950-1990

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 366-373

  Violanti, John M ^a   Vena, John E ^a   Petralia, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Neoplasms; Occupational mortality; Police; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POLICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUICIDE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; NEW YORK CITY; POLICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031895064     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199804)33:4<366::AID-AJIM6>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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