High arsenic contamination in the breast milk of mothers inhabiting the Gangetic plains of Bihar: a major health risk to infants

• Main Authors: Arun Kumar (Author), Radhika Agarwal (Author), Kanhaiya Kumar (Author), Nirmal Kumar Chayal (Author), Mohammad Ali (Author), Abhinav Srivastava (Author), Mukesh Kumar (Author), Pintoo Kumar Niraj (Author), Siddhant Aryal (Author), Dhruv Kumar (Author), Akhouri Bishwapriya (Author), Shreya Singh (Author), Tejasvi Pandey (Author), Kumar Sambhav Verma (Author), Santosh Kumar (Author), Manisha Singh (Author), Ashok Kumar Ghosh (Author)
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• 出版: BMC, 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Groundwater arsenic poisoning has posed serious health hazards in the exposed population. The objective of the study is to evaluate the arsenic ingestion from breastmilk among pediatric population in Bihar. In the present study, the total women selected were n = 513. Out of which n = 378 wo...