Reduced fertility among shoe manufacturing workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 518-524

  Sallmen M ^a   Neto, M ^b   Mayan, O N ^c  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b Regional Health Directorate of North   (Portugal)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC SOLVENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHOE INDUSTRY; SMOKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; COFFEE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PORTUGAL; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOES; SMOKING; SOLVENTS;

EID: 48949106230     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2007.032839     Document Type: Article

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