Aneire Khan, Andrew Ireson, Sari Kovats, Sontosh Kumar Mojumder et al.
Background: Drinking water from natural sources in coastal Bangladesh has become contaminated by varying degrees of salinity due to saltwater intrusion from rising sea levels, cyclone and storm surges and upstream withdrawal of freshwater. Objective: Our objective was to estimate salt intake from dr...
Paolo Vineis, Queenie Chan, Aneire Khan
It is estimated that 884 million people do not have access to clean drinking water in the world. Increasing salinity of natural drinking water sources has been reported as one of the many problems that affect low-income countries, but one which has not been fully explored. This problem is exacerbate...
Aneire Khan, Pauline Franka Denise Scheelbeek, Asma Begum Shilpi, Queenie Chan et al.
BACKGROUND: Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are among the leading causes of maternal and perinatal death in low-income countries, but the aetiology remains unclear. We investigated the relationship between salinity in drinking water and the risk of (pre)eclampsia and gestational hypertension in ...
Pauline Scheelbeek, Muhammad Chowdhury, Andy Haines, Dewan S Alam et al.
BACKGROUND: Millions of coastal inhabitants in Southeast Asia have been experiencing increasing sodium concentrations in their drinking-water sources, likely partially due to climate change. High (dietary) sodium intake has convincingly been proven to increase risk of hypertension; it remains unknow...
M. A. Hoque, Pauline Scheelbeek, Paolo Vineis, Aneire Khan et al.
Drinking water in much of Asia, particularly in coastal and rural settings, is provided by a variety of sources, which are widely distributed and frequently managed at an individual or local community level. Coastal and near-inland drinking water sources in South and South East (SSE) Asia are vulner...
Pauline Scheelbeek, Aneire Khan, Sontosh Kumar Mojumder, Paul Elliott et al.
Coastal areas in Southeast Asia are experiencing high sodium concentrations in drinking water sources that are commonly consumed by local populations. Salinity problems caused by episodic cyclones and subsequent seawater inundations are likely (partly) related to climate change and further exacerbat...
Aneire Khan, Santosh Kumar Mojumder, Sari Kovats, Paolo Vineis
Aneire Khan, Wei Xun, Habibul Ahsan, Paolo Vineis
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. IPCC, "IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. Asia," in Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge, UK: ...
ChiSan Tsai, M. A. Hoque, Paolo Vineis, Kazi Matin Ahmed et al.
Salinity is a widespread problem along the Asian coast, mainly in reclaimed lands where most people live. These low-lying areas are vulnerable to impacts from tropical cyclone induced storm surges. The role of such surges on the long-term salinity of water resources, particularly the salinisation of...
Paolo Vineis, Aneire Khan
Sea-level rise, storm surges, and cyclones exacerbated by climate change have begun to severely affect coasts and river estuaries in low-income countries. The resulting increased salinity in soil and drinking water has health implications for large populations. In coastal Bangladesh, natural
Pauline Scheelbeek, Muhammad Chowdhury, Andy Haines, Dewan S Alam et al.
Background In times of seawater inundation in coastal deltas, unprotected drinking water sources, such as ponds and shallow tube wells, take on salt water with each inundation. Daily consumption of these saline sources contributes to overall sodium intake. Although there is evidence that a high diet...
Adrian P. Butler, ChiSan Tsai, M. A. Hoque, Aneire Khan et al.
Major land reclamation using polders took place along the southern coastal area of Bangladesh during the mid‑20th century. These polders, located in the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna Delta, are protected by earth embankments approximately 2 metres high. While the embankments restrict tidal ingress of sa...
Pauline Scheelbeek, Mohammad Hoque, Paolo Vineis, Adrian P. Butler
Background – Millions of people living in coastal areas in South-east Asia have been experiencing an increasing number of land-falling cyclones and subsequent inundations: these inundations cause extreme salinization of local drinking water sources, such as ponds. Daily consumption of these sources ...
Adrian P. Butler, Mohammad Hoque, Eleanor Mathewson, Kazi Matin Ahmed et al.
M. A. Hoque, A.T. Williams, Eleanor Mathewson, A. K. M. M. Rahman et al.