Increased Respiratory Disease Mortality at a Microwave Popcorn Production Facility with Worker Risk of Bronchiolitis Obliterans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Halldin, Cara N ^a,b   Suarthana, Eva ^a,b   Fedan, Kathleen B ^b   Lo, Yi Chun ^a,c   Turabelidze, George ^c   Kreiss, Kathleen ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

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

^c MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3 BUTANEDIONE; FLAVORING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; BRONCHITIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROWAVE POPCORN PRODUCTION FACILITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; UNITED STATES; VITAL SIGN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMANS; MALE; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874558519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057935     Document Type: Article

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