Issues and findings in the evaluation of occupational risk among women high nickel alloys workers

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 114-121

  Arena, Vincent C ^a   Costantino, Joseph P ^b   Sussman, Nancy B ^b   Redmond, Carol K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Females; Mortality; Neoplasms; Nickel alloys; Occupational disease; Vital status resolution

Indexed keywords

NICKEL;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLOYS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NEOPLASMS; NICKEL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0033054985     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199907)36:1<114::AID-AJIM16>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Conference Paper

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