Relationship between fluoride concentration in drinking water and mortality rate from uterine cancer in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 184-191

  Tohyama, Eiichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Correlation analysis; Fluoride; Multivariate analysis; Time trends; Uterine cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLUORIDATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTERUS CANCER;

FEMALE; FLUORIDATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 37849189254     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.6.184     Document Type: Article

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