Lack of relationship between occupational exposure to carbon disulfide and endocrine dysfunction: A six-year cohort study of the Japanese rayon workers

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 111-118

  Takebayashi, Toru ^a   Nishiwaki, Yuji ^a   Nomiyama, Tetsuo ^a   Uemura, Takamoto ^a   Yamauchi, Tsuneyuki ^b   Tanaka, Shigeru ^b   Sakurai, Haruhiko ^a   Omae, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

2 thiothiazolidine 4carboxylic acid; Carbon disulfide; Cohort study; Endocrine system; Glucose metabolism

Indexed keywords

2 MERCAPTOTHIOPROLINE; CARBON DISULFIDE; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GONAD FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; THYROID FUNCTION; URINE LEVEL; WORKER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARBON DISULFIDE; CELLULOSE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037362264     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.45.111     Document Type: Article

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