[HTML][HTML] US drinking water quality: exposure risk profiles for seven legacy and emerging contaminants

R Levin, CM Villanueva, D Beene… - Journal of exposure …, 2024 - nature.com
Background Advances in drinking water infrastructure and treatment throughout the 20th
and early 21st century dramatically improved water reliability and quality in the United States …

Groundwater nitrate pollution due to excessive use of N-fertilizers in rural areas of Bangladesh: pollution status, health risk, source contribution, and future impacts

SMK Alam, P Li, M Fida - Exposure and Health, 2024 - Springer
Groundwater is a key water source for drinking and irrigation in Bangladesh, and nearly
69% of the total population of Bangladesh lives in rural areas and depends on shallow tube …

[HTML][HTML] Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse reproductive and birth outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

L Lin, S St Clair, GD Gamble, CA Crowther, L Dixon… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Exposure to low levels of nitrate in drinking water may have adverse reproductive effects.
We reviewed evidence about the association between nitrate in drinking water and adverse …

Integrating different tools and technologies to advance drinking water quality exposure assessments

J Schullehner, D Cserbik, P Gago-Ferrero… - Journal of Exposure …, 2024 - nature.com
Contaminants in drinking water are a major contributor to the human exposome and adverse
health effects. Assessing drinking water exposure accurately in health studies is …

[HTML][HTML] The potential human health hazard of nitrates in drinking water: a media discourse analysis in a high-income country

L Grout, T Chambers, S Hales, M Prickett, MG Baker… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Background Recent studies linking low levels of nitrate in drinking water to colorectal cancer
have raised public concerns over nitrate contamination. The aim of this study was to analyze …

[HTML][HTML] Prenatal exposure to tap water containing nitrate and the risk of small-for-gestational-age: A nationwide register-based study of Danish births, 1991–2015

AS Jensen, VR Coffman, J Schullehner… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Prenatal nitrate exposure from household tap water has been associated with
increased risk of fetal growth restriction, preterm birth, birth defects, and childhood cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Prenatal Exposure to Nitrate in Drinking Water and Adverse Health Outcomes in the Offspring: a Review of Current Epidemiological Research

PJ Clemmensen, J Schullehner, N Brix… - Current Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Recently, several epidemiological studies have investigated
whether prenatal exposure to nitrate from drinking water may be harmful to the fetus, even at …

Danish water supply areas and their links to water production facilities: an open-access data set

J Schullehner - Geus Bulletin, 2022 - geusbulletin.org
This data set establishes the missing link between drinking-water quality monitoring data at
the water production facility level in the Danish national geodatabase Jupiter and supply …

[HTML][HTML] Prenatal exposure to nitrate from drinking water and the risk of preterm birth: a Danish nationwide cohort study

VR Coffman, AS Jensen, BB Trabjerg… - Environmental …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Background: Evidence is emerging that preterm birth (PTB, birth before 37 completed weeks
of gestation), a risk factor for neonatal mortality and future morbidity, may be induced by …

[HTML][HTML] Prenatal nitrate exposure from diet and drinking water and timing of puberty in sons and daughters: a nationwide cohort study

PJ Clemmensen, N Brix, J Schullehner… - Environment …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background In Western countries, age at pubertal development has declined during
the last century in girls, and probably also in boys. No studies have investigated whether …