Mortality in a cohort of staffordshire pottery workers: Follow-up to December 2008

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 149-155

  Cherry, Nicola ^a   Harris, Jessica ^b   McDonald, Corbett ^b   Turner, Susan ^c   Taylor, Tony Newman ^b   Cullinan, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC NON MALIGNANT RENAL DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; ENGLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK FACTORS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SMOKING; WALES;

EID: 84874662431     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-100782     Document Type: Article

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