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ArticleFrontiers in public health2023

Arsenic in drinking water, hair, and prevalence of arsenicosis in Perak, Malaysia.

Nurfatehar Ramly, Husna Maizura Ahmad Mahir, Wan Nurul Farah Wan Azmi, Zailina Hashim, Jamal Hisham Hashim, Rafiza Shaharudin

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Nurfatehar RamlyEnvironmental Health Research Centre, Institute for Medical Research, National Institutes of Health, Ministry of Health, Setia Alam, Malaysia.
Husna Maizura Ahmad MahirCommunicable Disease Control Section, Public Health Division, Perak State Health Department, Ministry of Health, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
Wan Nurul Farah Wan AzmiEnvironmental Health Research Centre, Institute for Medical Research, National Institutes of Health, Ministry of Health, Setia Alam, Malaysia.
Zailina HashimDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Jamal Hisham HashimDepartment of Health Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Life Sciences, Universiti Selangor, Bestari Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
Rafiza ShaharudinEnvironmental Health Research Centre, Institute for Medical Research, National Institutes of Health, Ministry of Health, Setia Alam, Malaysia.
Ministry of Health · MYUniversiti Putra Malaysia · MYUniversity of Selangor · MY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arsenic is a carcinogen element that occurs naturally in our environment. Humans can be exposed to arsenic through ingestion, inhalation, and dermal absorption. However, the most significant exposure pathway is

Indexed as

ArsenicDrinking WaterCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHairHumansMalaysiaMalePrevalenceArsenicDrinking Waterarsenic poisoningcarcinogenshairmass spectrometryprevalencewater

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PMID36875418
PMCPMC9978706
OpenAlexW4321109942

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