Child intelligence and reductions in water arsenic and manganese: A two-year follow-up study in Bangladesh

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1114-1120

  Wasserman, Gail A ^a,b   Liu, Xinhua ^c   Parvez, Faruque ^c   Factor Litvak, Pam ^c   Kline, Jennie ^b,c   Siddique, Abu B ^d,e   Shahriar, Hasan ^d,e   Uddin, Mohammed Nasir ^f   Van Geen, Alexander ^g   Mey, Jacob L ^g   Balac, Olgica ^c   Graziano, Joseph H ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons   (United States)

^e University of Chicago Research Office ^*  (Bangladesh)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; MANGANESE; WATER POLLUTANT; WELL WATER;

ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; CHILD; CREATININE ADJUSTED URINARY ARSENIC; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MANGANESE BLOOD LEVEL; MASS SPECTROMETER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; URINALYSIS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VISUAL-SPATIAL ABILITY TEST; WATER POLLUTION; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS; BANGLADESH; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MANGANESE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER WELLS;

EID: 84977103375     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1509974     Document Type: Article

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