Health burden of skin lesions at low arsenic exposure through groundwater in Pakistan. Is river the source?

Environmental Research

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 575-581

  Fatmi, Zafar ^a   Azam, Iqbal ^a   Ahmed, Faiza ^a   Kazi, Ambreen ^a   Gill, Albert Bruce ^a   Kadir, Muhmmad Masood ^a   Ahmed, Mubashir ^a   Ara, Naseem ^a   Janjua, Naveed Zafar ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Arsenicosis; Epidemiology; Groundwater; Pakistan; Skin lesions

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER;

ARSENIC; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GPS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH RISK; LESION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BODY MASS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; KERATOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOSIS; PAKISTAN; PALMOPLANTAR KERATODERMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN ULCER; SMOKING; URINALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER STANDARD;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; PAKISTAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; SKIN DISEASES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDUS RIVER; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

SOLEIDAE;

EID: 67349285876     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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