Bath-related deaths in Kagoshima, the southwest part of Japan

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-14

  Hayashi, Takahito ^a   Ago, Kazutoshi ^a   Ago, Mihoko ^a   Ogata, Mamoru ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BATH; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASON;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BATHS; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS;

EID: 77951901521     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/msl.2009.009002     Document Type: Article

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