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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811037803321

Titolo

Health hazards of environmental arsenic poisoning : from epidemic to pandemic / / editors, Chien-Jen Chen, Hung-Yi Chiou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Jersey, : World Scientific, 2011

ISBN

1-283-43336-2

9786613433367

981-4291-82-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChenJianren <1951->

ChiouHung-Yi

Disciplina

615.9/25715

Soggetti

Arsenic - Toxicology

Arsenic - Environmental aspects

Epidemics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Arseniasis in the world : from endemic to pandemic / Chien-Jen Chen -- Mortality trends in blackfoot-disease-endemic areas of Taiwan / Chun-Yuh Yang -- Skin lesions : hyperpigmentation, hyperkeratosis, and cancer / Chien-Jen Chen -- Arsenics and urothelial carcinoma / Chung-Hsin Chen and Yeong-Shiau Pu -- Arsenic exposure and lung cancer / Chi-Ling Chen -- Blackfoot disease and microcirculation abnormality / Chin-Hsiao Tseng ... [et al.] -- Arsenic-induced carotid atherosclerosis, ventricular repolarization abnormalities, and ischemic heart disease / Chih-Hao Wang -- Arsenic exposure and cerebrovascular disease / Hung-Yi Chiou and Yi-Chen Hsieh -- Arsenic and type 2 diabetes and hypertension in human populations / Shu-Li Wang, Chin-Chiao Tseng, and Chien-Jen Chen -- Association between ingested arsenic and cataracts / Lai-Chu See ... [et al.] -- Neurological disorders from arseniasis / Hung-Pin Tseng -- Arsenic methylation capability and human health / Yu Mei Hsueh, Yung-Kai Huang, and Chi-Jung Chung -- Genetic susceptibility to arsenic-induced health hazards / Ling-I Hsu.

Sommario/riassunto

This book covers the entire spectrum of health effects induced by



chronic arsenic poisoning, which is prevalent in more than 30 countries due to the use of unclean underground water, a result of surface water pollution and shortage. This environmental health disaster has been considered more catastrophic than the Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion in the former Soviet Union and the Bhopal chemical plant explosion in India. All contributors to this review volume have done extensive research on arsenic poisoning and published excellent papers in internationally well-known journals. Health Hazards