Assessment of the sensitivity of the relation between current exposure to carbon black and lung function parameters when using different grouping schemes

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 548-556

  Van Tongeren, Martie J A ^a   Kromhout, Hans ^a,b   Gardiner, Kerry ^a   Calvert, Ian A ^a   Harrington, J Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Exposure assessment; Exposure response relations; Grouping schemes; Standard error

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSE RESPONSE; DUST; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; PREDICTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY HEIGHT; CARBON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DUST; EUROPE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0032859004     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199911)36:5<548::AID-AJIM7>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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