Combined effects of exposure to occupational noise and mixed organic solvents on blood pressure in car manufacturing company workers

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 243-251

  Attarchi, Mirsaeed ^a   Golabadi, Majid ^a   Labbafinejad, Yasser ^a   Mohammadi, Saber ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Hypertension; Noise; Occupational exposures; Solvent

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; SOLVENT; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CAR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; INDUSTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACETONE; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AUTOMOBILES; BENZENE DERIVATIVES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDUSTRY; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; SOLVENTS; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

EID: 84872390464     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22086     Document Type: Article

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