Nitrate in community water supplies and incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Sardinia, Italy

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 510-511

  Cocco, P ^a   Broccia, G ^b   Aru, G ^a   Casula, P ^b   Muntoni, S ^a   Cantor, K P ^c   Ward, M H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b Territorial Department of Nephrology and Dialysis   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; NITRATE;

CANCER; HEALTH RISK; NITRATE; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NITRATE METABOLISM; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POPULATION RISK; POPULATION SIZE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; NITRATES; RISK FACTORS; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

ITALY;

EID: 0038480639     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.57.7.510     Document Type: Article

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