Occupational exposure and mortality among workers at three titanium dioxide plants

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 282-291

  Ellis, Elizabeth D ^a   Watkins, Janice P ^a   Tankersley, William G ^a   Phillips, Joyce A ^a   Girardi, David J ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Inhalation; Lung cancer; Mortality; Occupational exposure; Titanium chloride; Titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM TETRACHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DELAWARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSISSIPPI; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; TENNESSEE; TIME FACTORS; TITANIUM;

EID: 84874118177     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22137     Document Type: Article

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