Geographical correlation between ambient UVB level and mortality risk of leukemia in Japan

Environmental Research

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 78-84

  Uehara, Masamichi ^a   Takahashi, Ken ^a   Hoshuyama, Tsutomu ^a   Pan, Guowei ^b   Feng, Yiping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ecological study; Japan; Leukemia; Mortality; Ultraviolet radiation B (UVB)

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METEOROLOGY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

JAPAN;

EID: 0037704792     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-9351(03)00034-3     Document Type: Article

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