Correlates of body mass index in hazardous materials firefighters

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 589-595

  Kales, Stephen N ^a,b,c   Polyhronopoulos, Gerry N ^a   Aldrich, Jon M ^a   Leitao, Edward O ^a,b   Christiani, David C ^b,c,d,e  

^a CAMBRIDGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Massachusetts Respiratory Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANGEROUS GOODS; FEMALE; FIRE FIGHTER; FITNESS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLISM; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; SMOKING;

EID: 0033043424     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199907000-00007     Document Type: Article

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