Gender differences in the effect of occupational endotoxin exposure on impaired lung function and death: The Shanghai Textile Worker Study

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 118-125

  Lai, Peggy S ^a,b   Hang, Jing Qing ^c   Zhang, Feng Ying ^c   Lin, Xinyi ^b   Zheng, Bu Yong ^c   Dai, Hei Lian ^c   Su, Li ^b   Cai, Tianxi ^b   Christiani, David C ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c People s Hospital of Shanghai Putuo District   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON DUST; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPIROMETRY; TEXTILE WORKER;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CHINA; COTTON FIBER; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

EID: 84892762665     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2013-101676     Document Type: Article

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