Cause-specific mortality in British coal workers and exposure to respirable dust and quartz

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 270-276

  Miller, Brian G ^a   MacCalman, Laura ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COAL MINING; COAL WORKER; DUST EXPOSURE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INHALATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; STOMACH CANCER; TIME PERCEPTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COAL MINING; DUST; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUARTZ; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950562657     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2009.046151     Document Type: Article

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