Mortality among participants in a lead surveillance program

Environmental Research

Volumn 132, Issue , 2014, Pages 100-104

  Chowdhury, Ritam ^a   Ebelt Sarnat, Stefanie ^b   Darrow, Lyndsey ^a   Mcclellan, William ^a   Steenland, Kyle ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lead; Lung cancer; Mortality; Occupation

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADULT; CANCER; HEALTH RISK; LEAD; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; STOMACH CANCER;

LEAD; LUNG CANCER; MORTALITY; OCCUPATION;

ADULT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEAD; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (U.S.); OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84899070281     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.03.008     Document Type: Article

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