Across-shift lung function variation in cottonseed oil workers

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 365-370

  Bakirci, Nadi ^a   Sayiner, Abdullah ^b   Sacaklioglu, Feride ^b   Bayindir, Ulku ^b  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Byssinosis; Cottonseed dust; Lung function; Occupational health; Respiratory symptoms

Indexed keywords

COTTON SEED OIL;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BYSSINOSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON DUST; COUGHING; DUST; DYSPNEA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SHIFT WORKER; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WHEEZING; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; COTTONSEED OIL; DUST; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW RATES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SMOKING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TURKEY;

EID: 33749604852     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kql033     Document Type: Article

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