Mortality from non-malignant respiratory diseases among workers in the Norwegian silicon carbide industry: Associations with dust exposure

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 863-869

  Bugge, Merete Drevvatne ^a   Føreland, Solveig ^a,b,c   Kjærheim, Kristina ^d   Eduard, Wijnand ^a   Martinsen, Jan Ivar ^d   Kjuus, Helge ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON CARBIDE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO;

CARBON COMPOUNDS, INORGANIC; DUST; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON DIOXIDE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 81855166634     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2010.062836     Document Type: Article

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