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Interaction between arsenic exposure from drinking water and genetic susceptibility in carotid intima-media thickness in Bangladesh.
Toxicology and applied pharmacology - 1 May 2014
Wu Fen, Jasmine Farzana, Kibriya Muhammad G, Liu Mengling, Cheng Xin, Parvez Faruque, Paul-Brutus Rachelle, Paul Rina Rani, Sarwar Golam, Ahmed Alauddin, Jiang Jieying, Islam Tariqul, Slavkovich Vesna, Rundek Tatjana, Demmer Ryan T, Desvarieux Moise, Ahsan Habibul, Chen Yu
Abstract excerpt
Epidemiologic studies that evaluated genetic susceptibility for the effects of arsenic exposure from drinking water on subclinical atherosclerosis are limited. We conducted a cross-sectional study of 1078 participants randomly selected from the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study in Bangladesh to evaluate whether the association between arsenic exposure and carotid artery intima-media thickness (cIMT)...
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