Neurobehavioral effects and hormones profile among spray painters

Industrial Health

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-97

  Zaidi, Shakeel ^a   Tiwari, Rajnarayan ^a   Gandhi, Sumitra ^a   Patel, Kanaiyalal ^a   Kumar, Sunil ^a   Saiyed, Habibullah ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (India)

Author keywords

Neurobehavioral changes; Reproductive irregularities; Solvent exposure; Spray painters; Thyroid and reproductive hormones

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTHENIA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; EYE IRRITATION; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAINT INDUSTRY; PAINTER; PARESTHESIA; PREVALENCE; PRURITUS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TINGLING; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; TINNITUS; TREMOR; VERTIGO; WORKER;

ADULT; AEROSOL PROPELLANTS; HORMONES; HUMANS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PAINT; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 33644530422     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.44.93     Document Type: Conference Paper

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