Arsenic exposure at low-to-moderate levels and skin lesions, arsenic metabolism, neurological functions, and biomarkers for respiratory and cardiovascular diseases: Review of recent findings from the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (HEALS) in Bangladesh

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 239, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 184-192

  Chen, Yu ^a   Parvez, Faruque ^b   Gamble, Mary ^b   Islam, Tariqul ^c   Ahmed, Alauddin ^c   Argos, Maria ^d   Graziano, Joseph H ^b   Ahsan, Habibul ^d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (Bangladesh)

^d Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic exposure; Bangladesh; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FOLIC ACID; SELENIUM; WATER;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; NEUROTOXICITY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRECANCER; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SKIN DEFECT; URINALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; BANGLADESH; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SKIN DISEASES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 68949176665     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2009.01.010     Document Type: Article

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