Lifetime occupation, education, smoking, and risk of ALS

Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1508-1514

  Sutedja, N A ^a   Veldink, J H ^a   Fischer, K ^a   Kromhout, H ^b   Wokke, J H J ^a   Huisman, M H B ^a   Heederik, D J J ^b   Van Den Berg, L H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLASSIFICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING;

EID: 35148892731     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000277463.87361.8c     Document Type: Article

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