Associations between respiratory illnesses and secondhand smoke exposure in flight attendants: A cross-sectional analysis of the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute Survey

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Beatty, Alexis L ^a   Haight, Thaddeus J ^b   Redberg, Rita F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRLINE INDUSTRY; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SENSORY SYSTEM DISORDER; SMOKE; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOBACCO;

ADULT; AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMPHYSEMA; EYE IRRITATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JOB EXPERIENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; NOSE CONGESTION; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; PASSIVE SMOKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; THROAT IRRITATION; THYROID DISEASE;

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EID: 80053175518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-10-81     Document Type: Article

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