Long-term exposure to low-level arsenic in drinking water and diabetes incidence: A prospective study of the diet, Cancer and health cohort

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1059-1065

  Bräuner, Elvira Vaclavik ^a,b   Nordsborg, Rikke Baastrup ^a   Andersen, Zorana Jovanovic ^c   Tjønneland, Anne ^a   Loft, Steffen ^c   Raaschou Nielsen, Ole ^a  

^a DANISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; GLUCOSE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADULT; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; WATER SUPPLY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; DENMARK; DIET; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84907671794     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408198     Document Type: Article

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