Non-cancer mortality in supermarket meat workers

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 846-852

  Johnson, Eric S ^a   Zhou, Yi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRASPINAL ABSCESS; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT INDUSTRY; MORTALITY; NEPHRITIS; PERITONITIS; POPULATION; RISK FACTOR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; UNITED STATES; URETER DISEASE; WORKER;

BALTIMORE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT-PACKING INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONS; RISK;

EID: 34547894313     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3180cac1f1     Document Type: Article

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