The mortality experience of 7,119 workers who were employed at a Beaumont, Texas, refinery for at least 1 year between 1945 and 1987 was investigated. Mortality analyses based on standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) showed overall mortality was significantly low
Cytogenetic biomonitoring on a group of petroleum refinery workers
β Scribed by Emiliano Basso; Chiara Cevoli; Maddalena Papacchini; Giovanna Tranfo; Antonella Mansi; Antonella Testa
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 248 KB
- Volume
- 52
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0893-6692
- DOI
- 10.1002/em.20641
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