Exposure to crystalline silica, silicosis, and lung disease other than cancer in diatomaceous earth industry workers: A quantitative risk assessment

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 36-43

  Park, R ^a   Rice, F ^a   Stayner, L ^a   Smith, R ^a   Gilbert, S ^a   Checkoway, H ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

AGE; ARTICLE; DUST EXPOSURE; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SILICOSIS; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; DUST; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILICOSIS;

EID: 0036153773     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.59.1.36     Document Type: Article

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