Mortality study of chemical workers exposed to dioxins: Follow-up 23 years after chemical plant closure

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 636-642

  Manuwald, Ulf ^a   Garrido, Marcial Velasco ^a   Berger, Jürgen ^a   Manz, Alfred ^b   Baur, Xaver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Centre for Chemical Workers' Health   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIOXIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DIOXINS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATORY TRACT NEOPLASMS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 85027947723     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-100682     Document Type: Article

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