Assessment of urinary cotinine as a marker of nicotine absorption from to bacco leaves: A study on tobacco farmers in Malaysia

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 140-145

  Onuki, Mayumi ^b   Yokoyama, Kazuhito ^a   Kimura, Kaoru ^b   Sato, Hajime ^b   Bin Nordin, Rusli ^b   Naing, Lin ^b   Morita, Yoko ^b   Sakai, Tadashi ^b   Kobayashi, Yasuki ^b   Araki, Shunichi ^b  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Mei University ^*

Author keywords

Biological monitoring; Green Tobacco Sickness; Urinary cotinine

Indexed keywords

COTININE; NICOTINE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PLANT LEAF; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SKIN ABSORPTION; SYMPTOM; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

AGRICULTURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COTININE; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; NICOTINE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SKIN ABSORPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 10744226694     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.45.140     Document Type: Article

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