Mortality of a cohort of workers in Great Britain with blood lead measurements

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 625-632

  McElvenny, Damien M ^a   Miller, Brian G ^a   MacCalman, Laura A ^a   Sleeuwenhoek, Anne ^a   Van Tongeren, Martie ^a   Shepherd, Kevin ^b   Darnton, Andrew J ^b   Cherrie, John W ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE   (United Kingdom)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CARCINOGENICITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DUST EXPOSURE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; STOMACH CANCER; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKER; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LEAD; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84939473833     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102637     Document Type: Article

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