Blood lead in Swedish police officers

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 519-522

  Löfstedt, Håkan ^a   Seldén, Anders ^a   Storéus, Lennart ^b   Bodin, Lennart ^a  

^a ÖREBRO MEDICAL CENTRE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b National Police   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood lead; Firearms; Occupational exposure; Occupations; Police; Sweden

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIREARM; HUMAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; POLICE; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HEALTH; HUMANS; LEAD; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032942183     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199905)35:5<519::AID-AJIM9>3.3.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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