Arsenic and fasting blood glucose in the context of other drinking water chemicals: a cross-sectional study in Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Goal

The goal of this study was to evaluate the association between groundwater arsenic and fasting blood glucose in the context of other groundwater chemicals, in Bangladesh.

Methods

Fasting blood glucose, gender, body mass index, sociodemographic variables, and diabetes medication use were measured among adults ≥ 35 years of age (n = 6587) participating in the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2011. Groundwater chemicals in 3534 well water samples were measured in the British Geological Survey (BGS) and Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) 1998-99 survey. We assigned the nearest BGS-DPHE well's chemical exposure to each BDHS participant. We used survey-estimation linear regression methods to model natural log-transformed fasting blood glucose, among

SUBMITTER: Ourshalimian S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6744838 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature