Risk of high blood pressure in salt workers working near salt milling plants: A cross-sectional and interventional study

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Haldiya, Kripa Ram ^a   Mathur, Murli Lal ^a   Sachdev, Raman ^a   Saiyed, Habibulla N ^b  

^a Desert Medicine Research Centre India   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FACE MASK; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SPECTACLES; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; INDUSTRY; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 24044511846     PISSN: 1476069X     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-4-13     Document Type: Article

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