Potential health impacts of hard water

International Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 866-875

  Sengupta, Pallav ^a  

^a VIDYASAGAR COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Calcium; Cancer; Cardiovascular disease; Diabetes; Hard water; Magnesium; Reproductive health

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM; CALCIUM BICARBONATE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CALCIUM HYDROXIDE; CALCIUM SULFATE; GROUND WATER; LAXATIVE; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM BICARBONATE; MAGNESIUM CARBONATE; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; SURFACE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BONE DENSITY; CALCIUM INTAKE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLIMATE; CONSTIPATION; CYSTINURIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTION; ECLAMPSIA AND PREECLAMPSIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); HYPERCALCIURIA; HYPERMAGNESEMIA; HYPEROXALATURIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERURICOSURIA; HYPOCITRATURIA; INFECTION; INFERTILITY; MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY; MAGNESIUM INTAKE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MENINGOMYELOCELE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MINERAL INTAKE; MORBIDITY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NUTRITION; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STILLBIRTH; TREATMENT INDICATION; WATER HARDNESS; WATER SOFT;

EID: 84884159440     PISSN: 20087802     EISSN: 20088213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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