Cohort mortality study of workers exposed to perfluorooctanoic acid

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 176, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 909-917

  Steenland, Kyle ^a   Woskie, Susan ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fluorocarbons; mortality; occupational exposure; octanoic acids; perfluorooctanoic acid

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID;

COHORT ANALYSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC ACID; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RODENT;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MESOTHELIOMA; MORTALITY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PANCREAS CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; TESTIS CANCER; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CAPRYLATES; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; WEST VIRGINIA;

UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA;

RODENTIA;

EID: 84869063798     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kws171     Document Type: Article

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