Vibration exposure and disease in a shipyard: A 13-year revisit

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 500-512

  Cherniack, Martin ^a   Morse, Timothy F ^a   Brammer, Anthony J ^a,b   Lundstrom, Ronnie ^c   Meyer, Jon D ^a   Nilsson, Tohr ^d   Peterson, Donald ^a   Toppila, Esko ^e   Warren, Nick ^a   Fu, Rongwei ^a   Bruneau, Heather ^a   Croteau, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d SUNDSVALL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Exposure magnitude; Hand arm vibration syndrome (HAVS); Sensorineural; Stockholm Workshop Scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; GLOVE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PROTECTION; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SHIPYARD WORKER; VASCULAR DISEASE; VIBRATION; VIBRATION SYNDROME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; SHIPS; SYNDROME; VIBRATION;

EID: 2642519696     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20019     Document Type: Article

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