Pesticide use and incident diabetes among wives of farmers in the Agricultural Health Study

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 629-635

  Starling, Anne P ^a,b   Umbach, David M ^a   Kamel, Freya ^a   Long, Stuart ^c   Sandler, Dale P ^a   Hoppin, Jane A ^a  

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

^b IL   (United States)

^c WESTAT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELDRIN; FONOFOS; HERBICIDE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PARATHION; PESTICIDE; PHORATE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOUSEWIFE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPOUSE; ADOLESCENT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; TOXICITY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IOWA; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANOPHOSPHATES; PESTICIDES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SPOUSES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906940419     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2013-101659     Document Type: Article

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