Asbestosis mortality in the USA: facts and predictions

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 335-338

  Dos Santos Antao, V C ^a,b   Pinheiro, G A ^a   Wassell, J T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b MS f 57 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASBESTOS; ASBESTOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66249128309     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2008.039172     Document Type: Article

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