Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Mortality in Diesel-Exposed RailroadWorkers
- 1 July 2006
- journal article
- Published by Environmental Health Perspectives in Environmental Health Perspectives
- Vol. 114 (7) , 1013-1017
- https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.8743
Abstract
Diesel exhaust is a mixture of combustion gases and ultrafine particles coated with organic compounds. There is concern whether exposure can result in or worsen obstructive airway diseases, but there is only limited information to assess this risk. U.S. ...Keywords
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