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Arsenic-related mortality in Bangladesh.
More than 30 years after the installation of tube wells in Bangladesh, Maria Argos and colleagues report a prospective cohort study in The Lancet today in which they investigated all-cause and chronic-disease mortalities related to arsenic exposure in well water. In previous studies by these and other investigators, associations were noted with skin lesions and malignant diseases (eg, skin, bla...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(10)61002-1