Ecological association between asbestos-related diseases and historical asbestos consumption: an international analysis

Lancet

Volumn 369, Issue 9564, 2007, Pages 844-849

  Lin, Ro Ting ^a   Takahashi, Ken ^a   Karjalainen, Antti ^b   Hoshuyama, Tsutomu ^a   Wilson, Donald ^a   Kameda, Takashi ^a   Chan, Chang Chuan ^c   Wen, Chi Pang ^d   Furuya, Sugio ^e   Higashi, Toshiaki ^a   Chien, Lung Chang ^f   Ohtaki, Megu ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^e Japan Occupational Safety and Health Resource Centre   (Japan)

^f IL   (United States)

^g HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PLEURA DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847685702     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60412-7     Document Type: Article

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