Levels of arsenic in drinking-water and cutaneous lesions in Inner Mongolia

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 214-220

  Guo, Xiaojuan ^a,b   Liu, Zhiyao ^c   Huang, Chenping ^a   You, Lingui ^d  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c INNER MONGOLIA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^d Inner Mongolia Center for Endemic Disease Control and Research   (China)

Author keywords

Arsenic; China; Cutaneous lesions; Drinking water; Inner Mongolia

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER;

ADULT; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; KERATOSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONGOLIA; PIGMENT DISORDER; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN DEFECT; SMOKING; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADULT; ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONGOLIA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SMOKING; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33846524873     PISSN: 16060997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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