Dose-response relationships between occupational exposure to potash, diesel exhaust and nitrogen oxides and lung function: Cross-sectional and longitudinal study in two salt mines

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1003-1019

  Lotz, Gabriele ^a   Plitzko, Sabine ^a   Gierke, Erhardt ^a   Tittelbach, Ulrike ^a   Kersten, Norbert ^a   Schneider, W Dietmar ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diesel exhaust; Follow up; Lung function; Nitrogen oxides; Salt miners

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE; POTASSIUM CARBONATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; EUROPE; EXHAUST GAS; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINER; MINING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMPLEX MIXTURES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; NITROGEN OXIDES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SALTS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 44649112019     PISSN: 03400131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00420-007-0294-9     Document Type: Article

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