Prevalence of low back pain and associated occupational factors among Chinese coal miners

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Guangxing ^a,b   Pang, Dong ^c   Liu, Fengying ^a   Pei, Desheng ^a   Wang, Sheng ^d   Li, Liping ^a  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b Shantou Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; COAL MINING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK;

ADULT; CHINA; COAL MINING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857545737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-149     Document Type: Article

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