Respiratory symptoms and occupation: A cross-sectional study of the general population

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-7

  Vermeulen, Roel ^a   Heederik, Dick ^a   Kromhout, Hans ^a   Smit, Henriëtte A ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INDUSTRY; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; FORESTRY; GLASS INDUSTRY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEATHER INDUSTRY; MACHINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAL INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAINT INDUSTRY; PAPER INDUSTRY; PLASTIC INDUSTRY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRINTING; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RUBBER INDUSTRY; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; WORKING TIME; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRONCHITIS; BUILDING MATERIAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3242666139     PISSN: 1476069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-1-1     Document Type: Article

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