Mortality and cancer morbidity of production workers in the UK flexible polyurethane foam industry: Updated findings, 1958-98

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 751-758

  Sorahan, T ^a   Nichols, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIISOCYANATE DERIVATIVE; ISOCYANATE; ISOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POLYURETHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMPLOYEE; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOAM; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COHORT STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYURETHANES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TOLUENE 2,4-DIISOCYANATE; WALES;

EID: 0036844796     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.59.11.751     Document Type: Article

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