Pesticide exposure and depression among male private pesticide applicators in the agricultural health study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 984-991

  Beard, John D ^a,b   Umbach, David M ^b   Hoppin, Jane A ^b   Richards, Marie ^c   Alavanja, Michael C R ^d   Blair, Aaron ^d   Sandler, Dale P ^b   Kamel, Freya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c WESTAT   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; DANGEROUS GOODS; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DANGEROUS GOODS; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; IOWA; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; DEPRESSION; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; IOWA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PESTICIDES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906883024     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307450     Document Type: Article

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