Mortality among Catholic nuns certified as radiologic technologists

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 339-348

  Doody, Michele Morin ^a   Mandel, Jack S ^b   Linet, Martha S ^a   Ron, Elaine ^a   Lubin, Jay H ^a   Boice Jr , John D ^a,c   Fraumeni Jr , Joseph F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catholicism; Cohort study; Epidemiology; Mortality; Neoplasms; Nuns

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GASTRODUODENAL ULCER; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGIST; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUBERCULOSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CATHOLICISM; CERTIFICATION; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HEALTHY WORKER EFFECT; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034110150     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(200004)37:4<339::AID-AJIM3>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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