Human exposure to arsenic from drinking water in Vietnam

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 488-489, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 562-569

  Agusa, Tetsuro ^a   Trang, Pham Thi Kim ^b   Lan, Vi Mai ^b   Anh, Duong Hong ^b   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^a   Viet, Pham Hung ^b   Berg, Michael ^c  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Groundwater; Hair; Health; Speciation; Urine

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH;

ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; ARSENIC CONTAMINATION; DIMETHYLARSINIC ACIDS; HAIR; HUMAN HAIR SAMPLES; MONOMETHYLARSONIC ACIDS; SPECIATION; URINE;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; CACODYLIC ACID; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; METHANEARSONIC ACID; WELL WATER;

ARSENIC; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DRINKING WATER; HAIR; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; PUBLIC HEALTH; URINE; WATER QUALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIOFILTER; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHILD; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAIR ANALYSIS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND FILTER; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN DISEASE; URINALYSIS; VIET NAM; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

RED RIVER DELTA; VIET NAM;

ARSENIC; GROUNDWATER; HAIR; HEALTH; SPECIATION; URINE;

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIETNAM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84901590772     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.039     Document Type: Article

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