Industry-wide medical surveillance of California flavor manufacturing workers: Cross-sectional results

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 857-865

  Kim, Thomas J ^a,b   Materna, Barbara L ^a   Prudhomme, Janice C ^a   Fedan, Kathleen B ^c   Enright, Paul L ^d   Sahakian, Nancy M ^c   Windham, Gayle C ^a   Kreiss, Kathleen ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bronchiolitis obliterans; Diacetyl; Flavoring; Occupational lung disease; Spirometry; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

2,3 BUTANEDIONE; FLAVORING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SPIROMETRY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CALIFORNIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIACETYL; FEMALE; FLAVORING AGENTS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SPIROMETRY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956134413     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20858     Document Type: Article

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