Mortality among sheet metal workers participating in a medical screening program

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 603-613

  Dement, John ^a   Welch, Laura ^b   Haile, Elizabeth ^b   Myers, Douglas ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b The Center for Construction Research and Training   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Construction; Lung cancer; Mortality; Sheet metal worker; Trades

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; METAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; METAL INDUSTRY; MORTALITY; PLEURA CANCER; SCREENING; SMOKING; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; BUILDING MATERIAL; CANADA; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; INFANT; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650476538     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20725     Document Type: Article

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