Environmental asbestos exposure sources in Korea
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Environmental asbestos exposure sources in Korea
BACKGROUND Because of the long asbestos-related disease latencies (10-50 years), detection, diagnosis, and epidemiologic studies require asbestos exposure history. However, environmental asbestos exposure source (EAES) data are lacking. OBJECTIVES To survey the available data for past EAES and supplement these data with interviews. METHODS We constructed an EAES database using a literature ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1077-3525,2049-3967
DOI: 10.1080/10773525.2016.1231948