Association of arsenic-contaminated drinking-water with prevalence of skin cancer in Wisconsin's Fox River Valley

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 206-213

  Knobeloch, Lynda M ^a   Zierold, Kristina M ^b   Anderson, Henry A ^a  

^a WISCONSIN DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Cross sectional studies; Skin neoplasms; Tobacco; United States

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; WELL WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SKIN CANCER; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; TOBACCO; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER STANDARD;

ADULT; ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; COCARCINOGENESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SMOKING; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY; WISCONSIN;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 33846557949     PISSN: 16060997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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