Prenatal arsenic exposure and drowning among children in Bangladesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19530400 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mahfuzar Rahman (0000-0002-9049-6737, BRAC, corresponding author), Nazmul Sohel (0000-0002-0269-4937, McMaster University), Samar Kumar Hore (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research), Mohd Yunus (0000-0003-1116-4978, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research), Mohammad Yunus (0000-0002-8167-8555), Abbas Bhuiya (0000-0001-9032-8760, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research), Peter Kim Streatfield (0000-0002-6698-6218, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28702 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Health Action (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1654-9716 • E-ISSN: 1654-9880 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3402/gha.v8.28702 |
| PMID | 26511679 |
| OpenAlex | W1865418518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 42 |
There is increasing concern regarding adverse effects of prenatal arsenic exposure on the neurodevelopment of children. We analyzed mortality data for children, who were born to 11,414 pregnant women between 2002 and 2004, with an average age of 5 years of follow-up. Individual drinking-water arsenic exposure during pregnancy was calculated using tubewell water arsenic concentration between last menstrual period and date of birth. There were 84 drowning deaths registered, with cause of death ascertained using verbal autopsy (International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision, codes X65-X70). The prenatal water arsenic exposure distribution was tertiled, and the risk of drowning mortality was estimated by Cox proportional hazard models, adjusted for potential confounders. We observed a significant association between prenatal arsenic exposure and drowning in children aged 1-5 years in the highest exposure tertile (HR=1.74, 95% CI: 1.03-2.94). This study showed that in utero arsenic exposure might be associated with excess mortality among children aged 1-5 years due to drowning
Arsenic · Arsenic poisoning · Cause of death · Confidence interval · Environmental health · Fetus · Hazard ratio · In utero · Poison control · Pregnancy · Verbal autopsy · Air Quality and Health Impacts · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity · Medicine · Internal Medicine · Pediatrics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |