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Hospital admissions due to endocrine diseases in Korean male firefighters

Seunghoon Ryu1, Yong-Jin Lee1, Eun-Chul Jang1

  • 1Department of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, Cheonan, Korea.

Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
|December 6, 2021
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AdmissionEndocrine diseaseEndocrine disruptorsFirefighters

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