Arsenic exposure in Hungary, Romania and Slovakia

Journal of Environmental Monitoring

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 203-208

  Lindberg, Anna Lena ^a   Goessler, Walter ^b   Gurzau, Eugen ^c   Koppova, Kvetoslava ^d   Rudnai, Peter ^e   Kumar, Rajiv ^f   Fletcher, Tony ^g   Leonardi, Giovanni ^g   Slotova, Katarina ^d   Gheorghiu, Emilia ^c   Vahter, Marie ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c Environmental Health Center   (Romania)

^d State Health Institute   (Slovakia)

^e Jozsef Fodor National Center for Public Health   (Hungary)

^f GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^g LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BODY MASS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUNGARY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANIA; SLOVAKIA; URINALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ADULT; AGED; ARSENIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; HUNGARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ROMANIA; SLOVAKIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 33644834993     PISSN: 14640325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b513206a     Document Type: Article

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