Work-related symptoms among furniture factory workers in Lublin region (Eastern Poland)

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 99-103

  Milanowski, Janusz ^a   Góra, Anna ^b   Skórska, Czesława ^b   Krysińska Traczyk, Ewa ^b   Mackiewicz, Barbara ^a   Sitkowska, Jolanta ^b   Cholewa, Grazyna ^b   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Furniture factories; Lung function; Respiratory symptoms; Woodworkers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FURNITURE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALAISE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; ORGANIC DUST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLAND; PREVALENCE; RHINITIS; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; VARNISH; VITAL CAPACITY; WORKER;

ADULT; DUST; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPIROMETRY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WOOD;

EID: 0036286630     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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