Hypothetical interventions to limit metalworking fluid exposures and their effects on COPD mortality: G-estimation within a public health framework

Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 436-443

  Picciotto, Sally ^a   Chevrier, Jonathan ^a   Balmes, John ^a,b   Eisen, Ellen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIQUID; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAL INDUSTRY; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SURVIVAL TIME; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE; ADULT; CAR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COHORT ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTION STUDY; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

OIL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRIAL OILS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84898049119     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000082     Document Type: Article

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