Mutual interaction between nutritional status and chronic arsenic toxicity due to groundwater contamination in an area of Terai, lowland Nepal

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 389-394

  Maharjan, Makhan ^a   Watanabe, Chiho ^a   Ahmad, Sk Akhtar ^b   Umezaki, Masahiro ^a   Ohtsuka, Ryutaro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine   (Bangladesh)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER;

ADULT; ARSENIC; BODY MASS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DRINKING WATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MALNUTRITION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SKIN DISORDER; TOXICITY; VILLAGE; WATERBORNE DISEASE;

ADULT; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEPAL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; UNDERWEIGHT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARSENIC POISONING; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEPAL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKIN DISEASES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; TARAI;

EID: 34247509158     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2005.045062     Document Type: Article

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