Long-term health experience of jet engine manufacturing workers: II. Total and cause-specific mortality excluding central nervous system neoplasms

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1117-1129

  Marsh, Gary M ^a   Buchanich, Jeanine M ^a   Youk, Ada O ^a   Cunningham, Michael A ^a   Lieberman, Frank S ^b   Kennedy, Kathleen J ^c   Lacey, Steven E ^c   Hancock, Roger P ^c   Esmen, Nurtan A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; KIDNEY CANCER; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; SHIFT WORKER;

EID: 56049091052     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31818bc327     Document Type: Article

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