Exposure and mortality in a cohort of German nuclear power workers

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-99

  Hammer, Gaël P ^a   Fehringer, Franz ^b   Seitz, Günter ^b   Zeeb, Hajo ^a   Dulon, Madeleine ^c   Langner, Ingo ^d   Blettner, Maria ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Berufsgenossenschaft der Feinmechanik und Elektrotechnik   (Germany)

^c Berufsgenossenschaft fur Gesundheitsdienst und Wohlfahrtspflege   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR POWER WORKERS; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIOS (SMR);

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DISEASES; IONIZING RADIATION; TUMORS;

NUCLEAR ENERGY;

CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR ENERGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION, IONIZING; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 38849095174     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-007-0134-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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