Associations between Arsenic Species in Exfoliated Urothelial Cells and Prevalence of Diabetes among Residents of Chihuahua, Mexico
Author(s) -
Jenna M. Currier,
María C. Ishida,
Carmen GonzálezHorta,
Blanca SánchezRamírez,
Lourdes BallinasCasarrubias,
Daniela S. GutiérrezTorres,
Roberto Hernández Cerón,
Damián Viniegra Morales,
Francisco A. Baeza Terrazas,
Luz M. Del Razo,
Gonzalo G. Garcı́a-Vargas,
R. Jesse Saunders,
Zuzana Drobná,
Rebecca C. Fry,
Tomáš Matoušek,
John B. Buse,
Michelle A. Méndez,
Dana Loomis,
Miroslav Stýblo
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1307756
Subject(s) - diabetes mellitus , interquartile range , urine , medicine , arsenic , type 2 diabetes , logistic regression , biomonitoring , body mass index , physiology , endocrinology , chemistry , environmental chemistry , organic chemistry
A growing number of studies link chronic exposure to inorganic arsenic (iAs) with the risk of diabetes. Many of these studies assessed iAs exposure by measuring arsenic (As) species in urine. However, this approach has been criticized because of uncertainties associated with renal function and urine dilution in diabetic individuals.
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