Occupational exposure to particles and incidence of acute myocardial infarction and other ischaemic heart disease

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 651-657

  Wiebert, Pernilla ^a   Lönn, Maria ^a   Fremling, Karin ^a   Feychting, Maria ^a   Sjögren, Bengt ^a   Nise, Gun ^a   Kauppinen, T ^b   Plato, Nils ^a   Gustavsson, Per ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORKER;

ACUTE DISEASE; AIR POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84865465273     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2011-100285     Document Type: Article

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