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ArticleGlobal health action2015

Prenatal arsenic exposure and drowning among children in Bangladesh.

Mahfuzar Rahman, Nazmul Sohel, Samar Kumar Hore, Mohammad Yunus, Abbas Bhuiya, Peter Kim Streatfield

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Article in Global health action, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Update of the risk assessment of inorganic arsenic in food.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2024
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  3. Comparative Biomonitoring of Arsenic Exposure in Mothers and Their Neonates in Comarca Lagunera, Mexico.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  4. Article
  5. A Review of Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh: The Millennium Development Goal Era and Beyond.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Mahfuzar RahmanResearch and Evaluation Division, BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh; mahfuzar.rahman@brac.net.
Nazmul SohelDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Samar Kumar Horeicddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Mohammad Yunusicddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Abbas Bhuiyaicddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Peter Kim Streatfieldicddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research · BDBRAC · BDMcMaster University · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is increasing concern regarding adverse effects of prenatal arsenic exposure on the neurodevelopment of children. We analyzed mortality data for children, who were born to 11,414 pregnant women between 2002 and 2004, with an average age of 5 years of follow-up. Individual drinking-water arsenic exposure during pregnancy was calculated using tubewell water arsenic concentration between last menstrual period and date of birth. There were 84 drowning deaths registered, with cause of death ascertained using verbal autopsy (International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision, codes X65-X70). The prenatal water arsenic exposure distribution was tertiled, and the risk of drowning mortality was estimated by Cox proportional hazard models, adjusted for potential confounders. We observed a significant association between prenatal arsenic exposure and drowning in children aged 1-5 years in the highest exposure tertile (HR=1.74, 95% CI: 1.03-2.94). This study showed that in utero arsenic exposure might be associated with excess mortality among children aged 1-5 years due to drowning.

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Prenatal Exposure Delayed EffectsAdultArsenicBangladeshChildChild HealthChild, PreschoolDrinking WaterDrowningEnvironmental ExposureFemaleGlobal HealthHumansMalePregnancyProportional Hazards ModelsArsenicDrinking Waterarsenicchild healthdrinking waterenvironmentexposuremillennium development goalmortalityprospective studywater and health

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PMID26511679
PMCPMC4624574
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