This report presents a mortality study among the 17,344 members of the Construction Workers' Health Insurance Society of Mie Prefecture in Japan. The study period was between 1973 and 1993. During this period, 480 members died. Age-specific mortality rates of Mie Prefecture were used as comparison s
A cohort mortality study of U.K. carbon black workers, 1951–1996
✍ Scribed by Tom Sorahan; Linda Hamilton; Martie van Tongeren; Kerry Gardiner; J. Malcolm Harrington
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 140 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-3586
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