Comments: The non-cancer mortality experience of male workers at British Nuclear Fuels plc, 1946-2005

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1159-1164

  Little, Mark P ^a   Tawn, E J ^b   Tzoulaki, I ^a   Wakeford, R ^c   Hildebrandt, G ^d   Tapio, S ^e   Elliott, P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR FUEL;

ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MORTALITY; NOTE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOMATIC MUTATION;

GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 68849092068     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn122     Document Type: Note

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