The world trade center clean up and recovery worker cohort study: Respiratory health amongst cleanup workers approximately 20 months after initial exposure at the disaster site

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1063-1072

  Tao, Xuguang ^a   Massa, Jennifer ^b   Ashwell, Leslie ^c   Davis, Kathleen ^c   Schwab, Margo ^c   Geyh, Alison ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLEANING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; TERRORISM; WORKER;

EID: 37349048505     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31815ac4f8     Document Type: Article

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