Habibul Ahsan, Yu Chen, Faruque Parvez, Lydia B. Zablotska et al.
Millions of persons around the world are exposed to low doses of arsenic through drinking water. However, estimates of health effects associated with low-dose arsenic exposure have been extrapolated from high-dose studies. In Bangladesh, many persons have been exposed to a wide range of doses of ars...
Habibul Ahsan, Yu Chen, Faruque Parvez, Maria Argos et al.
Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (HEALS), a multidisciplinary and large prospective cohort study in Araihazar, Bangladesh, was established to evaluate the effects of full-dose range arsenic (As) exposure on various health outcomes, including premalignant and malignant skin tumors, total ...
Sarker Masud Parvez, Farjana Jahan, Marie‐Noël Bruné, Julia Gorman et al.
Electronic waste (e-waste) contains numerous chemicals harmful to human and ecological health. To update a 2013 review assessing adverse human health consequences of exposure to e-waste, we systematically reviewed studies reporting effects on humans related to e-waste exposure. We searched EMBASE, P...
Habibul Ahsan, Mary Perrin, Mohammed Atiqur Rahman, Faruque Parvez et al.
The present study examined the associations between drinking water and urinary arsenic levels and skin lesions among 167 residents of three contiguous villages in Bangladesh. Thirty-six (21.6%) had skin lesions (melanosis, hyperkeratosis, or both), of which 13 (36.1%) occurred in subjects who were c...
Soma Mitra, D. N. Guha Mazumder, Arindam Basu, Gladys Block et al.
There has been widespread speculation about whether nutritional deficiencies increase the susceptibility to arsenic health effects. This is the first study to investigate whether dietary micronutrient and macronutrient intake modulates the well-established human risk of arsenic-induced skin lesions,...
Maria Argos, Tara Kalra, Brandon L. Pierce, Yu Chen et al.
Elevated concentrations of arsenic in groundwater pose a public health threat to millions of people worldwide. The authors aimed to evaluate the association between arsenic exposure and skin lesion incidence among participants in the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (HEALS). The analyses...
Bernard D. Goldstein
The precautionary principle asserts that the burden of proof for potentially harmful actions by industry or government rests on the assurance of safety and that when there are threats of serious damage, scientific uncertainty must be resolved in favor of prevention. Yet we in public health are somet...
Maria Kippler, Yukiko Wagatsuma, Anisur Rahman, Barbro Nermell et al.
Prenatal exposures to arsenic (As) and cadmium (Cd) have been associated with decreased size at birth. We here studied associations of prenatal As and Cd exposures with multiple fetal size parameters measured by ultrasound in gestational week (GW) 14 and 30 in a population-based mother-child cohort ...
Joyce S. Tsuji, Vanessa Pérez, Michael R. Garry, Dominik D. Alexander
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is developing an integrated assessment of non-cancer and cancer risk assessment of inorganic arsenic (iAs). Cardiovascular disease (CVD) in association with iAs exposure has been examined in a number of studies and provides a basis for evaluating a refe...
Khairul Islam, Abedul Haque, Rezaul Karim, Abul Fajol et al.
Abstract Background Chronic arsenic exposure has been shown to cause liver damage. However, serum hepatic enzyme activity as recognized on liver function tests (LFTs) showing a dose-response relationship with arsenic exposure has not yet been clearly documented. The aim of our study was to investiga...
Abul Hasnat Milton, Ziaul Hasan, S. M. Shahidullah, Sinthia Sharmin et al.
The role of nutritional factors in arsenic metabolism and toxicity is not clear. Provision of certain low protein diets resulted in decreased excretion of DMA and increased tissue retention of arsenic in experimental studies. This paper reports a prevalence comparison study conducted in Bangladesh t...
Dipti Halder, Subhamoy Bhowmick, Ashis Biswas, Debashis Chatterjee et al.
This study investigates the risk of arsenic (As) exposure to the communities in rural Bengal, even when they have been supplied with As safe drinking water. The estimates of exposure via dietary and drinking water routes show that, when people are consuming water with an As concentration of less tha...
Alexander van Geen, Kazi Matin Ahmed, Yasuyuki Tsuboi, Md Jahangir Alam et al.
The health risks of As exposure due to the installation of millions of shallow tubewells in the Bengal Basin are known, but fecal contamination of shallow aquifers has not systematically been examined. This could be a source of concern in densely populated areas with poor sanitation because the hydr...
M. Manzurul Hassan, Peter Atkins, Christine Dunn
Besides its toxicity, groundwater arsenic contamination creates widespread social problems for its victims and their families in Bangladesh. There is, for instance, a tendency to ostracise arsenic-affected people, arsenicosis being thought of as a contagious disease. Within the community, arsenic-af...
Abul Hasnat Milton, Ziul Hasan, Mohammed Atiqur Rahman, Mahfuzar Rahman
Chronic Arsenic Poisoning and Respiratory Effects in Bangladesh: Abul Hasnat Milton, et al. Arsenic Cell, NGO Forum for Drinking Water Supply & Sanitation, Bangladesh —A large population in Bangladesh have been exposed to naturally occurring inorganic arsenic through their drinking water. A prev...