A prospective cohort study of the association between drinking water arsenic exposure and self-reported maternal health symptoms during pregnancy in Bangladesh

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kile, Molly L ^a   Rodrigues, Ema G ^b   Mazumdar, Maitreyi ^b   Dobson, Christine B ^b   Diao, Nancy ^b   Golam, Mostofa ^c   Quamruzzaman, Quazi ^c   Rahman, Mahmudar ^c   Christiani, David C ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Dhaka Community Hospital   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Cramping; Environmental health; Maternal health; Nausea; Reproductive health; Vomiting

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; FERRITIN; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DRINKING WATER; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; HEALTH RISK; IMPREGNATED BEDNET; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SMOKING;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMON COLD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEADACHE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFLUENZA; JOINT SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MATERNAL WELFARE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PARITY; PASSIVE SMOKING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SANITATION; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM; TREND STUDY; VAGINA BLEEDING; YOUNG ADULT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; NAUSEA; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY; VOMITING; WATER POLLUTANT;

BANGLADESH;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL WELFARE; NAUSEA; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF REPORT; VOMITING; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928589117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-13-29     Document Type: Article

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