Dioxin exposure and benign prostatic hyperplasia

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 708-714

  Gupta, Amit ^a,b   Schecter, Arnold ^b   Aragaki, Corinne C ^b   Roehrborn, Claus G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIOXIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

AGED; DATA COLLECTION; DIOXINS; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746266480     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000205417.12621.17     Document Type: Article

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