Arsenic and lung disease mortality in Bangladeshi adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic arsenic exposure through drinking water is a public health problem affecting millions of people worldwide, including at least 30 million in Bangladesh. We prospectively investigated the associations of arsenic exposure and arsenical skin lesion status with lung disease mortality in Bangladeshi adults.

Methods

Data were collected from a population-based sample of 26,043 adults, with an average of 8.5 years of follow-up (220,157 total person-years). There were 156 nonmalignant lung disease deaths and 90 lung cancer deaths ascertained through October 2013. We used Cox proportional hazards models to estimate adjusted hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for lung disease mortality.

Results

Creatinine-adjusted urinary total arsenic was associa

SUBMITTER: Argos M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4330557 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature