Low-dose arsenic in search of a risk threshold

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Schmidt, Charles W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CARCINOGEN; CELL PROTEIN; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER;

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTAMINATION; CYTOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; LUNG CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN CANCER; SOCIAL HYGIENE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR GROWTH; WATER QUALITY; BANGLADESH; GOVERNMENT; SOUTH AMERICA; TAIWAN; TOXICITY; UNITED STATES;

ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; HUMANS; SOUTH AMERICA; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

EID: 84899708577     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.122-A130     Document Type: Article

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