Lack of combined effects of exposure and smoking on respiratory health in aluminium potroom workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 468-472

  Radon, K ^a,b   Nowak, D ^a,b   Szadkowski, D ^a  

^a Zentralinstitut fur Arbeitsmedizin der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Healthy smoker; Healthy worker; Spirometry

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; TOBACCO; WHEEZING;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0033036241     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.56.7.468     Document Type: Article

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