Health effects in community residents near a uranium plant at Fernald, Ohio, USA

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-153

  Pinney, Susan M ^a   Freyberg, Ronald W ^a   Levine, Gail H ^a   Brannen, Donald E ^a   Mark, Lynn S ^a   Nasuta, James M ^a   Tebbe, Colleen D ^a   Buckholz, Jeanette M ^a   Wones, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort; Environmental medicine; Prevalence; Surveillance; Uranium

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; HEMOGLOBIN; URANIUM;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MICROALBUMINURIA; NEPHRITIS; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED STATES; URANIUM MINE; URETHRA STRICTURE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0038148539     PISSN: 12321087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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