Fluoride exposure from groundwater as reflected by urinary fluoride and children's dental fluorosis in the Main Ethiopian Rift Valley

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 496, Issue , 2014, Pages 188-197

  Rango, Tewodros ^a   Vengosh, Avner ^a   Jeuland, Marc ^a,e   Tekle Haimanot, Redda ^b   Weinthal, Erika ^a   Kravchenko, Julia ^c   Paul, Christopher ^a   McCornick, Peter ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Defluoridation; Drinking water quality; East Africa; Exposure response; Risk assessment; Urinary biomarker

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; GROUNDWATER; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER QUALITY;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEFLUORIDATION; EAST AFRICA; EXPOSURE-RESPONSE; EXPOSURE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; GROUNDWATER CONCENTRATIONS; MONITORING AND EVALUATIONS; URINARY BIOMARKERS;

POTABLE WATER;

FLUORIDE; GROUND WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIOMARKER; CHILD HEALTH; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISEASE PREVALENCE; DRINKING WATER; FLUORIDE; GROUNDWATER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; URINE; WATER QUALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEFLUORIDATION; DENTAL FLUOROSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CONCENTRATING CAPACITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; URINALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; CHEMISTRY; FLUOROSIS, DENTAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URINE; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; ETHIOPIAN RIFT;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLUORIDES; FLUOROSIS, DENTAL; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84907425173     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.07.048     Document Type: Article

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