Pilot study on prevalence of color vision dysfunction in long-term solvent-exposed painters

Industrial Health

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-42

  Ihrig, Andreas ^a   Nasterlack, Michael ^a,b   Dietz, Michael C ^a   Hoffmann, Joerg ^a   Triebig, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color vision; Painters; Solvents

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC SOLVENT; THINNER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLOR CONFUSION INDEX; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION DEFECT; COLOR VISION TEST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LANTHONY DESATURATED PANEL D 15; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAINTER; PREVALENCE; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0037287297     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.41.39     Document Type: Article

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