Consumption of arsenic-contaminated drinking water and anemia among pregnant and non-pregnant women in northwestern Romania

Anemia is a global health problem. To evaluate the impact of low-moderate water arsenic exposure (mostly <10 μg/L) on anemia, we conducted a cross-sectional study of 217 Romanian women. The adjusted prevalences for ‘any’ anemia (prevalence proportion ratio (PPR)=1.71, 95% CI 0.75-3.88) and pregna...

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Published in:Environ Res
Main Authors: Surdu, Simona, Bloom, Michael S., Neamtiu, Iulia A., Pop, Cristian, Anastasiu, Doru, Fitzgerald, Edward F., Gurzau, Eugen S.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4492828/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26073204
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2015.05.020
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