Arsenic drinking water exposure and urinary excretion among adults in the Yaqui Valley, Sonora, Mexico

Environmental Research

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-126

  Meza, Maria Mercedes ^a   Kopplin, Michael J ^b   Burgess, Jefferey L ^b   Gandolfi, A Jay ^b  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE SONORA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Arsenic drinking water; Sonora; Urinary arsenic; Yaqui Valley

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRINKING WATER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; MICTURITION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINARY EXCRETION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARSENATES; ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; ARSENICALS; ARSENITES; CACODYLIC ACID; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; SONORA; YAQUI VALLEY;

ESPERANZA;

EID: 4344585303     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2003.08.010     Document Type: Article

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