Correlation between the arsenic concentrations in the air and the SMR of lung cancer

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 207-218

  Yoshikawa, Masaharu ^a   Aoki, Kazuo ^a,b   Ebine, Naoyuki ^a   Kusunoki, Masahiro ^a   Okamoto, Akihiro ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air pollutant; Arsenic; Lung cancer; Municipal tobacco tax income; Standardized mortality ratio

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH CANCER;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 56749092239     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-008-0032-2     Document Type: Article

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