Airway symptoms and lung function in the local population after the oil tank explosion in Gulen, Norway

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Granslo, Jens Tore ^a,b   Bråtveit, Magne ^b   Hollund, Bjørg E ^a   Irgens, Ågot ^a   Svanes, Cecilie ^a,b   Magerøy, Nils ^a   Moen, Bente E ^a,b  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Airway symptoms; Environmental pollutants; Explosion; Lung function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DYSPNEA; EXPLOSION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWAY; NOSE IRRITATION; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OIL TANK EXPLOSION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHINORRHEA; SMOKING; SORE THROAT; SPIROMETRY; WHEEZING;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 84870944195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2466-12-76     Document Type: Article

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