Environmental arsenic exposure and diabetes

JAMA

Volumn 300, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 845-846

  Kile, Molly L ^a   Christiani, David C ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC POISONING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSULIN RELEASE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; NOTE; URINE;

ARSENIC; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS;

EID: 49949116506     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.300.7.845     Document Type: Editorial

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