Zinc toxicity among galvanization workers in the iron and steel industry

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1140, Issue , 2008, Pages 256-262

  Safty, Amal El ^a,b   Mahgoub, Khalid El ^a   Helal, Sawsan ^a   Maksoud, Neveen Abdel ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Galvanization; Heavy metal interaction; Zinc fume fever; Zinc toxicity

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COPPER; IRON; MAGNESIUM; ZINC;

ADULT; ASTHMA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; DYSPNEA; FEVER; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; MAGNESIUM BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MATERIAL COATING; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE TWITCH; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; THORAX DISEASE; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 54949115428     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1454.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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