Anicteric hepatoxicity: a potential health risk of occupational exposures in Nigerian petroleum oil refining and distribution industry
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Anicteric hepatoxicity: a potential health risk of occupational exposures in Nigerian petroleum oil refining and distribution industry
BACKGROUND Literature abounds linking one's job to certain unpalatable health outcomes. Since exposures to hazardous conditions in industrial environments often results in sundry health effects among workers, we embarked on this study to investigate the hepatic health effects of occupational activities in the petroleum refining and distribution industry. METHOD Biochemical markers of liver fu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1745-6673
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6673-9-3