Occupational Lead Exposure and Associations with Selected Cancers: The Shanghai Men’s and Women’s Health Study Cohorts
Author(s) -
Linda M. Liao,
Melissa C. Friesen,
YongBing Xiang,
Hui Cai,
DongHee Koh,
BuTian Ji,
Gong Yang,
Honglan Li,
Sarah J. Locke,
Nathaniel Rothman,
Wei Zheng,
YuTang Gao,
XiaoOu Shu,
Mark P. Purdue
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1408171
Subject(s) - medicine , lead exposure , hazard ratio , relative risk , lead (geology) , cohort study , environmental health , proportional hazards model , confidence interval , occupational medicine , prospective cohort study , cohort , incidence (geometry) , demography , occupational exposure , biology , cats , paleontology , physics , sociology , optics
Epidemiologic studies of occupational lead exposure have suggested increased risks of cancers of the stomach, lung, kidney, brain, and meninges; however, the totality of the evidence is inconsistent.
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