Long-term effects of aluminium dust inhalation

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 864-868

  Peters, Susan ^a   Reid, Alison ^a,b   Fritschi, Lin ^a   De Klerk, Nicholas ^b,c   Musk, A W ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; DUST EXPOSURE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MINER; MINING; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SILICOSIS;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ALUMINUM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DUST; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOLD; HUMANS; MALE; MINING; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PROTECTIVE AGENTS; SILICOSIS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84887620191     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2013-101487     Document Type: Article

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