Exposure - Response relationship between chrysotile exposure and mortality from lung cancer and asbestosis

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 81-86

  Deng, Qian ^a   Wang, Xiaorong ^b   Wang, Mianzheng ^a   Lan, Yajia ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRYSOTILE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; DUST; EMPLOYMENT; FIBER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ASBESTOS, SERPENTINE; ASBESTOSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855753147     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2011.064899     Document Type: Article

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