Mortality among male licensed pesticide users and their wives

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 142-146

  Sperati, Alessandra ^a   Rapiti, Elisabetta ^a   Settimi, Laura ^b   Quercia, Augusto ^c   Terenzoni, Brunella ^c   Forastiere, Francesco ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c Local Health Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

Farmers; Farmers' wives; Leukemia; Mortality; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CANCER MORTALITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SPOUSE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PESTICIDES; SPOUSES;

EID: 0032980560     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199907)36:1<142::AID-AJIM20>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Conference Paper

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