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Welding Occupations and Mortality from Parkinson's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases Among United States Men, 1985–1999

Meir J. Stampfer Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Epidemiology and Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
Pages 267-272 | Published online: 22 Jul 2010

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