Original Contribution Acute Myocardial Infarction Mortality in Comparison with Lung and Bladder Cancer Mortality in Arsenic-exposed Region II of Chile from 1950 to 2000
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1 Arsenic Health Effects Research Program, University of California, Berkeley, CA. 2 Departamento de Salud Pública, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. 3 Departamento de Estadı́stica, Facultad de Matemáticas, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. 4 Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, Oakland, CA. 5 School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007