Hand tremor related to smoking habits and the consumption of caffeine in male industrial workers

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 525-533

  Ellingsen, Dag G ^a   Bast Pettersen, Rita ^a   Efskind, Jon ^b   Gjølstad, Merete ^a   Olsen, Raymond ^a   Thomassen, Yngvar ^a   Molander, Paal ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

^b Borregaard Ind Ltd   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ageing; Caffeine; Cotinine; Hand tremor; Smoking snuffing habits

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CAFFEINE; COTININE; CREATININE; NICOTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; GEOMETRY; HAND TREMOR; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SMOKING HABIT; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CADMIUM; CAFFEINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CREATININE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKING; TREMOR;

EID: 33744982657     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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