Lung-function impairment among US underground coal miners, 2005 to 2009: Geographic patterns and association with coal workers' pneumoconiosis

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 846-850

  Wang, Mei Lin ^a   Beeckman Wagner, Lu Ann ^a   Wolfe, Anita L ^a   Syamlal, Girija ^a   Petsonk, Edward L ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COAL MINING; COAL WORKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PREVALENCE; SPIROMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COAL MINING; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SPIROMETRY; UNITED STATES; VITAL CAPACITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880777003     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31828dc985     Document Type: Article

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