Gail A. Wasserman, Xinhua Liu, Faruque Parvez, Habibul Ahsan et al.
BACKGROUND: We recently reported results of a cross-sectional investigation of intellectual function in 10-year-olds in Bangladesh, who had been exposed to arsenic from drinking water in their home wells. OBJECTIVES: We present results of a similar investigation of 301 randomly selected 6-year-olds ...
Sanxiang Wang, Zhenghui Wang, Xiaotian Cheng, Jun Li et al.
BACKGROUND: Recently, in a cross-sectional study of 201 children in Araihazar, Bangladesh, exposure to arsenic (As) in drinking water has been shown to lower the scores on tests that measure children's intellectual function before and after adjustment for sociodemographic features. OBJECTIVES: We in...
Md. Faruque Hossain
Bangladesh is currently facing a serious threat to public health, with 85 million people at risk from arsenic (As) in drinking water and in food crops. In Bangladesh, the groundwater As contamination problem is the worst in the world. Ninety-seven percent of the population in the country uses ground...
Tarit Roy Chowdhury, Gautam Basu, Badal Kumar Mandal, Bhajan Kumar Biswas et al.
Alexander van Geen, Yan Zheng, Roelof Versteeg, M. Stute et al.
Arsenic concentrations measured by graphite furnace atomic absorption range from < 5 to 900 μg/L in groundwater pumped from 6000 wells within a 25 km 2 area of Bangladesh. The proportion of wells that exceed the Bangladesh standard for drinking water of 50 μg/L arsenic increases with depth from 2...
Sara V. Flanagan, Richard B. Johnston, Yan Zheng
A national drinking water quality survey conducted in 2009 furnished data that were used to make an updated estimate of chronic arsenic exposure in Bangladesh. About 20 million and 45 million people were found to be exposed to concentrations above the national standard of 50 µg/L and the World Healt...
Naser A. Anjum, Pallavi Sharma, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Mirza Hasanuzzaman et al.
Plants have to counteract unavoidable stress-caused anomalies such as oxidative stress to sustain their lives and serve heterotrophic organisms including humans. Among major enzymatic antioxidants, catalase (CAT; EC 1.11.1.6) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX; EC 1.11.1.11) are representative heme enzym...
A. Vahidnia, Gijsbert B. van der Voet, F.A. de Wolff
Arsenic (As) is one of the oldest poisons known to men. Its applications throughout history are wide and varied: murder, make-up, paint and even as a pesticide. Chronic As toxicity is a global environmental health problem, affecting millions of people in the USA and Germany to Bangladesh and Taiwan....
S.K. Acharyya, S. Lahiri, B. C. Raymahashay, Amitava Bhowmik
Sk Akhtar Ahmad, Md Sayed, Shilajit Barua, Manzurul Haque Khan et al.
We studied a group of women of reproductive age (15-49 years) who were chronically exposed to arsenic through drinking water to identify the pregnancy outcomes in terms of live birth, stillbirth, spontaneous abortion, and preterm birth. We compared pregnancy outcomes of exposed respondents with preg...
Rebecca B. Neumann, Khandaker N. Ashfaque, A. B. M. Badruzzaman, M. Ashraf Ali et al.
Charlotte Lomax, Wenju Liu, Liyou Wu, Kai Xue et al.
• Inorganic arsenic (iAs) is a ubiquitous human carcinogen, and rice (Oryza sativa) is the main contributor to iAs in the diet. Methylated pentavalent As species are less toxic and are routinely found in plants; however, it is currently unknown whether plants are able to methylate As. • Rice, tomato...
Peter Ravenscroft, William Burgess, Kazi Matin Ahmed, Melanie Burren et al.
Andrew A. Meharg, Enzo Lombi, Paul N. Williams, Kirk G. Scheckel et al.
Synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence (S-XRF) was utilized to locate arsenic (As) in polished (white) and unpolished (brown) rice grains from the United States, China, and Bangladesh. In white rice As was generally dispersed throughout the grain, the bulk of which constitutes the endosperm. In brown ...
Mizanur Rahman, Martin Tondel, Sk Akhtar Ahmad, Olav Axelson
The objective of this study was to assess whether arsenic exposure is a risk factor for diabetes mellitus as indicated in a few earlier studies. Arsenic in drinking water is known to occur in western Bangladesh, and in 1996, two of the authors conducted a survey of the prevalence of diabetes mellitu...