Dioxins and cardiovascular disease mortality

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1443-1448

  Humblet, Olivier ^a   Birnbaum, Linda ^b   Rimm, Eric ^a   Mittleman, Murray A ^a,c   Hauser, Russ ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Dioxin; Epidemiology; Healthy worker effect; Herbicides; Ischemic heart disease; Mortality; Occupational exposure; PCB; TCDD

Indexed keywords

DIOXIN; PERFUME; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

CARDIOTOXICITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEATHER INDUSTRY; MEDLINE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WASTE MINIMIZATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; DIOXINS; HUMANS;

EID: 58849098054     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11579     Document Type: Review

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