Gail A. Wasserman, Xinhua Liu, Faruque Parvez, Habibul Ahsan et al.
Exposure to manganese via inhalation has long been known to elicit neurotoxicity in adults, but little is known about possible consequences of exposure via drinking water. In this study, we report results of a cross-sectional investigation of intellectual function in 142 10-year-old children in Arai...
Maria Argos, Tara Kalra, Paul J. Rathouz, Yu Chen et al.
Background Millions of people worldwide are chronically exposed to arsenic through drinking water, including 35–77 million people in Bangladesh. The association between arsenic exposure and mortality rate has not been prospectively investigated by use of individual-level data. We therefore prospecti...
Gail A. Wasserman, Xinhua Liu, Faruque Parvez, Habibul Ahsan et al.
Exposure to arsenic has long been known to have neurologic consequences in adults, but to date there are no well-controlled studies in children. We report results of a cross-sectional investigation of intellectual function in 201 children 10 years of age whose parents participate in our ongoing pros...
A. Horneman, Alexander van Geen, Dennis V. Kent, Pierre-Étienne Mathé et al.
Yu Chen, J. H. Graziano, F. Parvez, Mengling Liu et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between arsenic exposure and mortality from cardiovascular disease and to assess whether cigarette smoking influences the association. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study with arsenic exposure measured in drinking water from wells and urine. SETTING: General popul...
Yan Zheng, M. Stute, Alexander van Geen, Ittai Gavrieli et al.
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 ...
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...
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...
Malgosia Madajewicz, Alexander Pfaff, Alexander van Geen, Joseph H. Graziano et al.
M. Feroze Ahmed, S. Ahuja, Mohammad Alauddin, Stephan J. Hug et al.
Excessive levels of arsenic in drinking water is a vast health problem in Southeast Asia. Several viable approaches to mitigation could drastically reduce arsenic exposure, but they all require periodic testing.
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 ...
Gail A. Wasserman, Xinhua Liu, Faruque Parvez, Pam Factor‐Litvak et al.
Recently, epidemiologic studies of developmental neurotoxicology have been challenged to increase focus on co-exposure to multiple toxicants. Earlier reports, including our own work in Bangladesh, have demonstrated independent associations between neurobehavioral function and exposure to both arseni...
Khalid Khan, Gail A. Wasserman, Xinhua Liu, Ershad Ahmed et al.
Drinking water manganese (WMn) is a potential threat to children’s health due to its associations with a wide range of outcomes including cognitive, behavioral and neuropsychological effects. Although adverse effects of Mn on cognitive function of the children indicate possible impact on their acade...
Alexander van Geen, Jérôme Rose, Sophie Thoral, Jérémie Garnier et al.