Extended follow-up of lung cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease mortality among California diatomaceous earth workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 360-365

  Gallagher, Lisa G ^a   Park, Robert M ^b   Checkoway, Harvey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; SILICON DIOXIDE; INFUSORIAL EARTH;

ADULT; AIR MONITORING; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SMOKING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INDUSTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; WORK; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIATOMACEOUS EARTH; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928103885     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102412     Document Type: Article

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