Differences in mortality by radiation monitoring status in an expanded cohort of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard workers

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 677-690

  Silver, Sharon R ^a   Daniels, Robert D ^a   Taulbee, Timothy D ^a   Zaebst, Dennis D ^a   Kinnes, Gregory M ^a   Couch, James R ^b   Kubale, Travis L ^a   Yiin, James H ^a   Schubauer Berigan, Mary K ^a   Chen, Pi Hsueh ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b WESTAT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; SOLVENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; EMPLOYMENT DURATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; NAVY; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; SHIPYARD WORKER; SMOKING; STANDARD MORTALITY RATIO; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASBESTOS; ASBESTOSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RADIATION INJURIES; SHIPS; SMOKING;

EID: 3142704266     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000128154.79025.2a     Document Type: Article

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