Associations of work hours with carotid intima-media thickness and ankle-brachial index: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 713-720

  Charles, Luenda E ^a   Fekedulegn, Desta ^a   Burchfiel, Cecil M ^a   Fujishiro, Kaori ^a   Landsbergis, Paul ^b   Diez Roux, Ana V ^c   MacDonald, Leslie ^a   Foy, Capri G ^d   Andrew, Michael E ^a   Stukovsky, Karen H ^e   Baron, Sherry ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE MARKER; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; WORKING TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SEX FACTORS; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84866487040     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-100665     Document Type: Article

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