Persistent respiratory symptoms in clean-up workers 5 years after the Prestige oil spill

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 508-513

  Zock, Jan Paul ^a,b,c   Rodríguez Trigo, Gema ^d,e   Rodríguez Rodríguez, Emma ^f   Espinosa, Aina ^a,b,c   Pozo Rodríguez, Francisco ^e,g   Gómez, Federico ^e,h   Fuster, Carme ⁱ   Castaño Vinyals, Gemma ^a,b,c   Antó, Josep M ^a,b,c,j   Barberà, Joan A ^e,h  

^a Barcelona Biomedical Research Park   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL JUAN CANALEJO   (Spain)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^h INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^j UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISHERMAN; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OIL SPILL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SMOKING; WHEEZING;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; FEMALE; FISHERIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84862520509     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2011-100614     Document Type: Article

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