Relationship between urinary cadmium and mortality in habitants of a cadmium-polluted area: A 22-year follow-up study in Japan

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 3504-3509

  Li, Qian ^a   Nishijo, Muneko ^b   Nakagawa, Hideaki ^b   Morikawa, Yuko ^b   Sakurai, Masaru ^b   Nakamura, Koshi ^b   Kido, Teruhiko ^c   Nogawa, Koji ^d   Dai, Min ^a  

^a CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

^b KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Chiba Occupational Health Promotion Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental exposure; Mortality; Special causes of death; Urinary cadmium

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JAPAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NEPHRITIS; NEPHROSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RIVER; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL; WATER POLLUTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADMIUM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRITIS; NEPHROSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 82255169506     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2011.21.013     Document Type: Article

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