Health effects in New York State personnel who responded to the World Trade Center disaster

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1197-1205

  Mauer, Matthew P ^a,b   Cummings, Karen R ^a   Carlson, G Anders ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISASTER; EXPLOSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

EID: 36048946635     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e318157d31d     Document Type: Article

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