Groundwater Contaminated with Hexavalent Chromium [Cr (VI)]: A Health Survey and Clinical Examination of Community Inhabitants (Kanpur, India)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Sharma, Priti ^a   Bihari, Vipin ^b   Agarwal, Sudhir K ^c   Verma, Vipin ^a   Kesavachandran, Chandrasekharan N ^b   Pangtey, Balram S ^b   Mathur, Neeraj ^b   Singh, Kunwar Pal ^b   Srivastava, Mithlesh ^b   Goel, Sudhir K ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^b CSIR IITR   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM(VI); DIPHENYLCARBAZIDE; GROUND WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS OBSTRUCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EXPOSURE; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GINGIVA DISEASE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INDIA; LEATHER INDUSTRY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN DISEASE; SPIROMETRY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TOOTH DISEASE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADULT; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHROMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868089891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047877     Document Type: Article

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