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| lifeskim:mentions | |
| pubmed:issue |
2
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
2007-1-1
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| pubmed:abstractText |
Chronic arsenicosis is a newly-emerged public-health issue in China and many other Asian countries. Over 200 million people are estimated to be at the risk of high arsenic exposure from drinking-water in the Asian region. To protect people from the hazards of chronic arsenic poisoning, the Chinese Government has been providing low-arsenic drinking-water to some seriously-affected rural areas, such as Inner Mongolia autonomous province. Results of follow-up studies showed that both the average values of arsenic, including inorganic arsenic (iAs), monomethylated arsenic, dimethylated arsenic and trimethylated arsenic, and 8-hydroxydeoxyguanine in urine, decreased significantly after drinking low-arsenic water for one year, and arsenic-specific skin lesions also improved to some extent. However, a five-year follow-up study showed no more significant improvement of skin lesions, while the potential risk of arsenic-induced cancers after cutting off high-arsenic exposure was still uncertain and indefinite. The susceptibility of children compared to adults to chronic arsenic exposure and the need to re-evaluate the appropriate standard of arsenic in drinking-water were also discussed in this paper.
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| pubmed:language |
eng
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| pubmed:journal | |
| pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:month |
Jun
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| pubmed:issn |
1606-0997
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
24
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
176-81
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| pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Adolescent,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Adult,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Analysis of Variance,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Arsenic Poisoning,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Child,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-China,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Chronic Disease,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Endemic Diseases,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Environmental Monitoring,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Follow-Up Studies,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Health Services Needs and Demand,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Male,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Maximum Allowable Concentration,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Middle Aged,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Population Surveillance,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Program Evaluation,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Public Health,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Risk Factors,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Rural Health,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Skin Diseases,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Water Pollution, Chemical,
pubmed-meshheading:17195558-Water Purification
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| pubmed:year |
2006
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
Current research problems of chronic arsenicosis in China.
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| pubmed:affiliation |
Department of Occupational Health, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China. sungf@mail.cmu.edu.cn
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Review
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