Occupational titles as risk factors for Parkinson's disease
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Occupational titles as risk factors for Parkinson's disease.
BACKGROUND Job title or employment sector may be associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS In a case-control study, in four European centres, lifetime occupational histories were coded using modified International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) and Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). We employed multiple logistic regression analyses adjusting for age, gender, smoking a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Medicine
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0962-7480,1471-8405
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kql109