Workplace Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and High Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol among Nonsmokers
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Workplace exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and high density lipoprotein cholesterol among nonsmokers.
There are few epidemiologic studies among adult nonsmokers on the effects of workplace environmental tobacco smoke on high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C). The authors investigated this relation, using data from health examinations conducted in 1995 on 3,062 Japanese nonsmokers in a total of 27 municipal offices with few smoking restrictions. Multiple regression analysis with adjustment...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009930