A prospective study of respiratory symptoms associated with chronic arsenic exposure in Bangladesh: Findings from the health effects of arsenic longitudinal study (HEALS)

Thorax

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 528-533

  Parvez, Faruque ^a   Chen, Yu ^b   Brandt Rauf, Paul W ^a   Slavkovich, Vesna ^a   Islam, Tariqul ^c   Ahmed, Alauddin ^c   Argos, Maria ^d   Hassan, Rabiul ^c   Yunus, Mahbub ^c   Haque, Syed E ^c   Balac, Olgica ^a   Graziano, Joseph H ^a   Ahsan, Habibul ^d  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BODY MASS; BREATHING DISORDER; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DOSE RESPONSE; EDUCATION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN DEFECT; SMOKING; ANALYSIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; TOXICITY; URINE; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SMOKING; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77953699322     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2009.119347     Document Type: Article

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