Arsenic health risk assessment in drinking water and source apportionment using multivariate statistical techniques in Kohistan region, northern Pakistan

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2855-2864

  Muhammad, Said ^a   Tahir Shah, M ^a   Khan, Sardar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Average daily dose; Drinking water; Hazard quotient; Health risk

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; IRON; SURFACE WATER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH HAZARD; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAKISTAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; SPRING; STREAM (RIVER); WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; PAKISTAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77956345369     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2010.07.018     Document Type: Article

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