Open AccessArsenic Exposure and Age- and Sex-Specific Risk for Skin Lesions: A Population-Based Case–Referent Study in Bangladesh
Author(s) -
Mahfuzar Rahman,
Marie Vahter,
Nazmul Sohel,
Mohammad Yunus,
Mohammad A. Wahed,
Peter Kim Streatfield,
EvaCharlotte Ekström,
Lars Åke Persson
Publication year - 2006
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.9207
Subject(s) - medicine , population , odds ratio , socioeconomic status , demography , environmental health , physiology , pediatrics , sociology
The objective of this population-based case-referent study in Matlab, Bangladesh, was to assess the susceptibility to arsenic-induced skin lesions by age and sex, in a population drinking water from As-contaminated tube wells.
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