A prospective analysis of airborne metal exposures and risk of parkinson disease in the nurses' health study cohort

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 933-938

  Palacios, Natalia ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Kathryn ^a   Roberts, Andrea L ^a   Hart, Jaime E ^a,b   Weisskopf, Marc G ^a   Schwarzschild, Michael A ^c   Ascherio, Alberto ^a,b   Laden, Francine ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; ARSENIC; HEAVY METAL;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ARSENIC; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; METALS, HEAVY; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84906883428     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307218     Document Type: Article

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