Occupational trichloroethylene exposure and antinuclear antibodies: a cross-sectional study in China
Conclusions
Our findings, to our knowledge the first direct human evidence of an association between TCE exposure and systemic autoimmunity, provide biologic plausibility to epidemiologic evidence relating TCE and autoimmune disease.
Source: Occupational and Environmental Medicine - Category: Occupational Health Authors: Purdue, M., Zhang, L., Vermeulen, R., Smith, M. T., Hu, W., Rhee, J., Wen, C., Huang, Y., Tang, X., Berndt, S. I., Frazer-Abel, A. A., Deane, K. D., Rothman, N., Lan, Q. Tags: Workplace Source Type: research
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