The Relationship Between Exposure to Arsenic Concentrations in Drinking Water and the Development of Skin Lesions in Farmers from Inner Mongolia, China

Associations between the concentration of arsenic naturally occurring in drinking water and the development of skin lesions in people have been documented for some years at various locations around the world. Data on the exposure-response relationship between concentrations of arsenic in drinking wa...

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Published in:Environmental geochemistry and health 2002-12, Vol.24 (4), p.293-293
Main Authors: Yang, Linsheng, Peterson, Peter J, Williams, W Peter, Wang, Wuyi, Hou, Shaofan, Tan, Jian'an
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arsenic
China, People's Rep., Inner Mongolia
China, People's Rep., Xinijiang
Drinking water
Farmers
Lesions
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Summary:Associations between the concentration of arsenic naturally occurring in drinking water and the development of skin lesions in people have been documented for some years at various locations around the world. Data on the exposure-response relationship between concentrations of arsenic in drinking water and prevalence of skin lesions in farmers from five locations in Inner Mongolia, China have been collected from the original publications and re-analysed together as a meta-study. The calculated data show a positive linear exposure-response relationship without a threshold. The reasons for this linear correlation are discussed and compared with the data from Xinjiang, another arsenism area located in a different geographical area of China. Here a different relationship was recorded that involved a threshold concentration before skin lesions developed. The significance of these two different exposure-response scenarios is discussed.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0269-4042
1573-2983
DOI:10.1023/A:1020544010978