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Trial reportEnvironmental health perspectives2005

Vascular dysfunction in patients with chronic arsenosis can be reversed by reduction of arsenic exposure.

Jingbo Pi, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Guifan Sun, Takahiko Yoshida, Hiroyuki Aikawa, Wataru Fujimoto, Hiroyasu Iso, Renzhe Cui, Michael P Waalkes, Yoshito Kumagai

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Trial report in Environmental health perspectives, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Jingbo PiGraduate School of Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
Hiroshi Yamauchi
Guifan Sun
Takahiko Yoshida
Hiroyuki Aikawa
Wataru Fujimoto
Hiroyasu Iso
Renzhe Cui
Michael P Waalkes
Yoshito Kumagai
National Institutes of Health · USAsahikawa Medical College Hospital · JPChina Medical University · CNKawasaki Medical School · JPSt. Marianna University School of Medicine · JPTokai University · JPUniversity of Tsukuba · JP

Funding

MECHANISMS OF INORGANIC CARCINOGENESISZ01BC005488 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI WAALKES, MICHAEL · 1996 to 2008
$3.4M
Mechanisms of Inorganic CarcinogenesisZIABC005488 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI WAALKES, MICHAEL · 2009 to 2010
$2.5M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic arsenic exposure causes vascular diseases associated with systematic dysfunction of endogenous nitric oxide. Replacement of heavily arsenic-contaminated drinking water with low-arsenic water is a potential intervention strategy for arsenosis, although the reversibility of arsenic intoxication has not established. In the present study, we examined urinary excretion of cyclic guanosine 3 ,5 -monophosphate (cGMP), a second messenger of the vasoactive effects of nitric oxide, and signs and symptoms for peripheral vascular function in 54 arsenosis patients before and after they were supplied with low-arsenic drinking water in an endemic area of chronic arsenic poisoning in Inner Mongolia, China. The arsenosis patients showed a marked decrease in urinary excretion of cGMP (mean +/- SEM: male, 37.0 +/- 6.1; female, 37.2 +/- 5.4 nmol/mmol creatinine), and a 13-month period of consuming low-arsenic drinking water reversed this trend (male, 68.0 +/- 5.6; female, 70.6 +/- 3.0 nmol/mmol creatinine) and improved peripheral vascular response to cold stress. Our intervention study indicates that peripheral vascular disease in arsenosis patients can be reversed by exposure cessation and has important implications for the public health approach to arsenic exposure.

Indexed as

Environmental ExposureWater SupplyAdolescentAdultAgedArsenic PoisoningBiomarkersChildChinaCyclic GMPFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNitric OxidePublic HealthBiomarkersCyclic GMPNitric Oxide

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PMID15743725
PMCPMC1253762
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