Environmental tobacco smoke revisited: The reliability of the data used for risk assessment

Risk Analysis

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 737-760

  Nilsson, Robert ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bias and confounding; Biological plausibility; Cardiovascular disease; Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS); Lung cancer; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; PULMONARY DISEASES; SMOKE; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOBACCO; TUMORS;

CORONARY HEART DISEASE (CHD);

RISK ASSESSMENT;

CANCER; HEALTH RISK; LIFESTYLE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; LUNG CANCER; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 0035699177     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0272-4332.214147     Document Type: Article

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