An exploratory study of the relation of population density and agricultural activity to hematologic malignancies in North Dakota

Wisconsin Medical Journal

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 24-27

  Watkins, Patricia L ^a   Watkins, John M ^a  

^a University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RISK; PRECANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH DAKOTA; POPULATION DENSITY; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84874822377     PISSN: 10981861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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