ReviewEnvironmental health perspectives2021
Uranium Exposure in American Indian Communities: Health, Policy, and the Way Forward.
Review in Environmental health perspectives, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.
- Opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence in public health: a systematic review on technological efficacy, ethical dilemmas, and governance pathways.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Native and Indigenous Populations and Gastric Cancer: A Worldwide Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Uranium Isotopes: From Geosciences to Biomedical Sciences.Current environmental health reports · 2026Review
- Associations of drinking water and urinary uranium with incident diabetes among U.S. adults: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and the Strong Heart Family Study.Environmental research · 2026Article
- Levels of Uranium in Soil and Dust and Their Associated Chemical Risks to Human Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Environmental health insights · 2026Review
- Isoscapes as a Regional-Scale Tool for Tracing Groundwater Uranium Cycling in the Northern Plains, United States.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Removal of Uranium by Polymer Metal Oxide Nanofiber Composites: Enhanced Performance through Integration of Phthalic Acid.ACS applied engineering materials · 2025Article
- Isotopic Fractionation of Natural Uranium in Mice as a Potential Biomarker of Renal Accumulation.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Uranium Exposure, Hypertension, and Blood Pressure in the Strong Heart Family Study.Preventing chronic disease · 2025Article
- Zinc as a Mechanism-Based Strategy for Mitigation of Metals Toxicity.Current environmental health reports · 2025Review
- Heavy Metal, Heavy Heart: Adverse Cardiovascular Effects of Uranium Exposure.JACC. Advances · 2024Article
- A State-of-the-Science Review on Metal Biomarkers.Current environmental health reports · 2023Review
- Review
- An assessment of uranium in groundwater in the Grand Canyon region.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- COVID-19 Pandemic and Indigenous Representation in Public Health Data.American journal of public health · 2021Article
- Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors: Nursing Considerations for Social Determinants of Health.Clinical journal of oncology nursing · 2021Article
- Cleaning Up after the Cold War: Experts Call for Action on Abandoned Uranium Mines on the Navajo Nation.Environmental health perspectives · 2021Article
- The Associations between Blood and Urinary Concentrations of Metal Metabolites, Obesity, Hypertension, Type 2 Diabetes, and Dyslipidemia among US Adults: NHANES 1999-2016.Journal of environmental and public health · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundUranium contamination of drinking-water sources on American Indian (AI) reservations in the United States is a largely ignored and underfunded public health crisis. With an estimated 40% of the headwaters in the western U.S. watershed, home to many AI reservation communities, being contaminated with untreated mine waste, the potential health effects have largely been unexplored. With AI populations already facing continued and progressive economic and social marginalization, higher prevalence of chronic disease, and systemic discrimination, associations between various toxicant exposures, including uranium, and various chronic conditions, need further examination.
objectivesUranium's health effects, in addition to considerations for uranium drinking-water testing, reporting, and mitigation in reference to AI communities through the lens of water quality, is reviewed. DISCUSSION: A series of environmental health policy recommendations are described with the intent to proactively improve responsiveness to the water quality crisis in AI reservation communities in the United States specific to uranium. There is a serious and immediate need for better coordination of uranium-related drinking-water testing and reporting on reservations in the United States that will better support and guide best practices for uranium mitigation efforts. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP7537.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.