Increased mortality of respiratory diseases, including lung cancer, in the area with large amount of ashfall from mount Sakurajima volcano

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Higuchi, Kenta ^a   Koriyama, Chihaya ^a   Akiba, Suminori ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; VOLCANIC ASH; AIR POLLUTANT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LUNG TUMOR; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; VOLCANO;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EID: 84859711259     PISSN: 16879805     EISSN: 16879813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/257831     Document Type: Article

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