Prevalence of respiratory symptoms in sheep breeders

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 770-773

  Radon, K ^a   Winter, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHEEP FARMING; SMOKING; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SHEEP;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0141748283     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.10.770     Document Type: Article

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