Indicators of mancozeb exposure in relation to thyroid cancer and neural tube defects in farmers' families

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 89-96

  Nordby, Karl Christian ^a   Andersen, Aage ^b   Irgens, Lorentz M ^c,d   Kristensen, Petter ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

^b CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Central nervous system malformation; Cohort Study; Epidemiology; Pesticide; Zinc manganese ethylene bisdithiocarbamate

Indexed keywords

MANCOZEB;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CANCER; FUNGICIDE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THYROID CANCER;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 17644424604     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.855     Document Type: Article

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