Lung function and respiratory symptoms in male palestinian farmers

Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 191-200

  Abu Sham'a, Farid Kamel ^a,b,c   Skogstad, M ^d   Nijem, K ^a   Bjertness, E ^b,e   Kristensen, P ^b,d  

^a HEBRON UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Ear Nose Throat Department   (Israel)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

^e TIBET UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Farm exposures; Lung function; Palestine; Reference values; Respiratory symptoms

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DUST; DYSPNEA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PALESTINE; POULTRY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; WHEEZING; AGRICULTURE; ARAB; DRUG EFFECT; LUNG; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ANIMALIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; ARABS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DUST; FARMER'S LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952118900     PISSN: 19338244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19338241003730911     Document Type: Article

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