Mortality from dementia in occupations at risk of exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy: Analysis of death registrations

British Medical Journal

Volumn 318, Issue 7190, 1999, Pages 1044-1045

  Aylin, Paul ^a   Bunting, Julia ^a   De Stavola, Bianca ^a   Coleman, Michel P ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DEATH CERTIFICATES; DEMENTIA; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT PRODUCTS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; WALES;

EID: 0033577553     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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