World Health Organization increases its drinking-water guideline for uranium

Environmental Sciences: Processes and Impacts

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1817-1823

  Frisbie, Seth H ^a   Mitchell, Erika J ^a   Sarkar, Bibudhendra ^b,c  

^a NORWICH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; GLUCOSE; URANIUM;

BONE TURNOVER; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIURESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GLUCOSE URINE LEVEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALS; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84884788758     PISSN: 20507887     EISSN: 20507895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3em00381g     Document Type: Review

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