Arsenic levels in drinking water and the prevalence of skin lesions in West Bengal, India

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 871-877

  Guha Mazumder, Debendra N ^a   Haque, Reina ^b   Ghosh, Nilima ^a   De Binay, K ^a   Santra, Amal ^a   Chakraborty, Dipankar ^c   Smith, Allan H ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Cross sectional study; Drinking water; Hyperpigmentation; India; Keratosis

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER;

ARSENIC; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DRINKING WATER; HEALTH RISK; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; WATER POLLUTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; KERATOSIS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARSENIC; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; KERATOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; WATER SUPPLY;

INDIA;

EID: 0001007028     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/27.5.871     Document Type: Article

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