Chronic health effects in people exposed to arsenic via the drinking water: Dose-response relationships in review

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 243-252

  Yoshida, Takahiko ^a   Yamauchi, Hiroshi ^b   Fan Sun, Gui ^c  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adverse health effects; Chronic arsenic poisoning; Dose response; Drinking water; Epidemiological field research; Internal malignancies; Skin cancer; Skin lesions

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER;

ARSENIC POISONING; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BODY BURDEN; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG HAIR LEVEL; DRUG URINE LEVEL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPERTENSION; KERATOSIS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NEUROTOXICITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 3242761550     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2003.10.022     Document Type: Article

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