Thyroid function in Danish greenhouse workers

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Toft, Gunnar ^a   Flyvbjerg, Allan ^a   Bonde, Jens Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GREENHOUSE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; SEASONAL VARIATION; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; DENMARK; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; SEASONS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID HORMONES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33845533248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-5-32     Document Type: Article

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