Chest illnesses and the decline of FEV1 in steelworkers

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1085-1090

  Banks, Daniel E ^a   Shah, Anuradha A ^a   Lopez, Marco ^a   Wang, Mei Lin ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HAY FEVER; HUMAN; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 0032763595     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199912000-00013     Document Type: Article

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