Research Studies on Health Impact of Arsenic Exposure

Contents: I. Articles published in scientific journals and conference proceedings: 1. Arsenical keratoses (chronic arsenism) -22 cases study/Maidul AZM, Momin A, Akramullah SM, Zakir Ahmed, Afsar S, Salahuddin A, Tarafdar SA and Ali M. 2. Chronic arsenic poisoning in a village of Chapai Nawabganj District-a cross sectional study/MM Hoque, AA Amin, MM Alam and A Taher. 3. Groundwater arsenic calamity in Bangladesh/Ratan Kr. Dhar, Bhajan Kr. Biswas, Gautam Samanta, Badal Kr. Mandal, D. Chakraborti, Shibtosh Roy, Abu Jafar, Ariful Islam, Gulshan Ara, Saiful Kabir, A. Wadud Khan, S. Akhtar Ahmad and S. Abdul Hadi. 4. Aresenic: silent catastrophe/A. Wadud Khan, Sk. Akhtar Ahmad, Sk. Abdul Hadi, M. H. Faruquee and Manzurul Haque Khan. 5. Arsenic contamination in ground water and arsenicosis in Bangladesh/Sk. Akhtar Ahmad, Don Bandaranayake, Abdul Wadud Khan, Sk. Abdul Hadi, Gias Uddin and Md Abdul Halim. 6. Arsenic contamination in ground water and its effect on human health with particular reference to Bangladesh/ A. Wadud Khan, Sk. Akhtar Ahmad, M. H. Salim Ullah Sayed, Sk. Abdul Hadi, Manzurul Haque Khan, M. A. Jalil, Rukshana Ahmed and M. H. Faruquee. 7. Modified arsenic field test kit: a cheap and easy device for detection of arsenic in water/Sk. Akhtar Ahmad, M. H. Salim Ullah Sayed, Sk. Abdul Hadi and Abdul Wadud Khan. 8. Chronic arsenicosis: management by vitamin A, E, C regimen/S. A. Ahmad, M.H. Faruquee, M.H.S.U. Sayed, M.H. Khan, M.A. Jalil, R. Ahmed and S.A. Hadi. 9. Arsenicosis: neoplastic manifestations of skin/Sk. Akhtar Ahmad, M.H. Salim Ullah Sayed, Manzurul Haque Khan, M.H. Faruquee, Md. Abdul Jalil and Rukshana Ahmed. 10. Diabetes mellitus associated with arsenic exposure in Bangladesh/Mahfuzar Rahman, Martin Tondel, Sk. Akhtar Ahmad and Olav Axelson. 11. Environmental pollution and skin involvement pattern of chronic arsenicosis in Bangladesh/Abul Hasnat Milton and Mahfuzar Rahman. 12. Aresnicosis in a village in Bangladesh/Sk. Akhtar Ahmad, M.H. Salim Ullah Sayed, Sk. Abdul Hadi, M.H. Faruquee, Manzurul Haque Khan, Md. Abdul Jalil, Rukshana Ahmed and A. Wadud Khan. 13. Arsenicosis: sex differentials/Sk. Akhtar Ahmad, MH Salim Ullah Sayed, MF Faruquee, Manzurul Haque Khan, MA Jalil, Rukshana Ahmed, MA Razzaque and Moyeen-Us-Safa. 14. Relations between exposure to arsenic, skin lesions, and glucosuria/Mahafuzar Rahman, Martin Tondel, Ireen Akhter Chowdhury and Olav Axelson. 15. Hypertension and arsenic exposure in Bangladesh/Mahfuzar Rahman, Martin Tondel, S. Akhtar Ahmad, Ireen Akhter Chowdhury, Mohammad Hossain Faruquee and Olav Axelson. 16. The relationship of arsenic levels indrinking water and the prevalence rate of skin lesions in Bangladesh/Martin Tondel, Mahfuzar Rahman, Anders Magnuson, Ireen Akhter Chowdhury, Mohammad Hossain Faruquee and Sk. Akhtar Ahmad. 17. Chronic arsenic toxicity and liver damage-report of two cases with review of literature/Sk. Saha, M.S. Sikder, A.S.M. Zakaria, K. Ahmed, MMR. Khan, H. Rahman, PK Ray, ASMA Raihan, MT Rahman and M Hasan. 18. Clinical manifestation of chronic arsenic toxicity in Bangladesh -A 250 case study/MS Sikder, AZM. Maidul and A Momin. 19. Contamination of drinking-water by Arsenic in Bangladesh: a public health emergency/Allan H. Smith and Elena O. Lingas & Mahfuzar Rahman. 20. Spriulina in the treatment of chronic arsenic poisoning/Muhammad Asadul Huq, Mir Misbahuddin and SAR Choudhury. 21. Role of spirulina in the treatment of chronic arsenic poisoning/SAR Chowdhury, Md. Abdul Karim Khan, Mir Misbahuddin, AZM Maidul Islam and Md. Sahjahan. 22. Associations between drinking water and urinary arsenic levels and skin lesions in Bangladesh/Habiqul Ahsan, Mary Perrin, Atiqur Rahman, Faruque Parvez, Martin Stute, Yan Zheng, Abul Hasnat Milton, Paul Brandt-Rauf, Alexander van Geen and Joseph Graziano. 23. Arsenicosis and state of liver function/G Mahiyuddin, MHSU Sayed, B Banu, S Begum, MH Faruquee, MH Khan, AW Khan and SA Ahmad. 24. Effect of spirulina in the treatment of chronic arsenicosis/MS Sikder, AZM Maidul, MA Karim Khan, M Asadul Huq, SAR Choudhury and Mir Misbahuddin. 25. Arsenic in drinking water: a public health point of view/Allan H Smith and Mahfuzar Rahman. 26. Effects of spirulina in the treatment of chronic arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh/Md. Abdul Karim Khan, SAR Choudhury, Mir Misbahuddin, AZM Maidul and Md. Sahjahan. 27. Arsenic in drinking water and pregnancy outcomes/S. Akhtar Ahmad, M.H. Salim Ullah Sayed, Shampa Barua, Manzurul Haque Khan, M.H. Faruquee, Abdul Jalil, S. Abdul Hadi and Humayun Kabir Talukder. 28. Chronic arsenic poisoning and respiratory effects in Bangladesh/Abul Hasnat Milton, Ziaul Hasan, Atiqur Rahman and Mahfuzar Rahman. 29. Arsenicosis and Body Mass Index (BMI) in a selected area of Bangladesh/Md. Iqbal Kabir, Mahmudur Rahman, Meerjady Sabrina Flora and Abul Kalam Azad. 30. Arsenic Ingestion and health effects in Bangladesh: epidemiological observations/Mahfuzar Rahman and Olav Axelson. 31. An assessment of arsenic problems in Bangladesh/M. Feroze Ahmed. 32. Coping strategy and health seeking behaviour of arsenicosis patients of rural Bangladesh: a case study of Ramganj Upazila, Lakshmipur/Rejuan Hossain Bhuiyan and Nazrul Islam. 33. The poor in Bangladesh suffers effects and treatment of arsenic poisoning/Jamal Anwar. 34. Arsenic contamination and its consequences on human health: a review/MA Khalique Barbhuiya, MH Salim Ullah Sayed, Manzurul Haque Khan, MA Jalil and Sk. Akhtar Ahmad. II. Abstracts published in scientific journals and conference proceedings: 35. Chronic arsenic toxicity & skin problem in Bangladesh (editorial)/Maidul AZM. 36. Health effects due to arsenic toxicity in Bangladesh/Sk. Akhtar Ahmad, M.H. Salim Ullah Sayed, Sk. Abdul Hadi, M.H. Faruquee, Manzurul Haque Khan, M.A. Jalil, Rukhsana Ahmed, S.M.J. Abbas Majumder and A. Wadud Khan. 37. Investigation of skin manifestations of patients with arsenicism in samta, Jessore, Bangladesh/Motoki, Kurokawa, Shinichiro, Tsumori, Nobuyuki and Hotta. 38. Survey on goundwater arsenic contamination of Ramganj Thana of Laxmipur district, Bangladesh- a macro level study/Ratan Kr. Dhar, Bhajan Kr. Biswas, Gautam Samanta, Badal Kr. Mandal and D. Chakraborti; Shibtosh Roy, Saiful Kabir and Ashraful Islam Arif. 39. Arsenic and hypertension in Bangladesh (letter to editor)/Mahfuzar Rahman. 40. Arsenic kinetics in humans: epidemiologic study design considerations/David C. Christiani, Quasi Quamruzzaman, Mahmuder Rahman, G. Mahiuddin and Shibtosh Roy. 41 Arsenic content of rice in Bangladesh and impacts on rice productivity/J.M. Duxbury, A.B. Mayer, J.G. Lauren and N. Hassan. 42. Arsenic in food chain/S.M. Imamul Huq, Nazma Sultana, Ray Correll and Ravi Naidu. 43. Analysis of the clinical manifestation and management of chronic arsenicosis patients/Khandaker A Asad, Quazi Quamruzzaman, Mahmudur Rahman and Nasirullah. 44. Socio-cultural impact of arsenicosis in rural Bangladesh/Mahbuba Nasreen and Khondoker Mokaddem Hossain. 45. Arsenic awareness at household level/Md. Mosleh Uddin Sadeque, Md. Azahar Ali. 46. Speciation of arsenic compounds (As(III), As(V), MMA, DMA) in human urine from an arsenic exposed area in Bangladesh/Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Dipankar Chakraborti, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Kunal Paul, Dilip Lodh, Chitta Ranjan Chanda, Shibtosh Roy, Quazi Quamruzzaman, N. Chandra Skaran, Tarit Roychowdhury, Tadashi Uchino, Hiroshi Tokunaga and Masanori Ando. 47. Health consequences of arsenic poisoning situation of two upazilas in Bangladesh/Md. Jakariya, Md. Zabed Hossain and AMR Chowdhury. 48. Study on socio-economic status of chronic arsenicosis patients in Bangladesh/M.S. Sikder, A.Z.M. Maidul and M. Ali. III. Reports and manuals: 49. Health effects of arsenic toxicity/Abdul Wadud Khan. 50. Arsenic drinking water: health effects and management/A. Wadud Khan and Sk. Akhtar Ahmad. 51. Survey on health hazards due to arsenic toxicity/M.A. Wadud Khan, Md. Elias, Sk. Akhtar Ahmad, M.H. Salim Ullah Sayed and Sk. Abdul Hadi. IV. Abstracts of thesis of postgraduate students: 52. A study on the arsenic contamination of ground water in the village Rajarampur under Nawabganj district of Bangladesh/A.K.M. Gias Uddin. 53. Study on knowledge and awareness on arsenicosis among people in the selected affected & non-affected areas of Bangladesh/Md. Humayun Kabir Talukder. 54. Study on case management of chronic arsenicosis/Mahmud Hossain Faruquee. 55. Socio-demographic characteristics of the cases with arsenicosis among the affected people in a selected area of Bangladesh/Md. Muzaffor Rahman. 56. Study on pattern of water intake by arsenicosis patients/Debprosad Biswas. 57. Menstrual pattern in chronic arsenic exposed patients/Shirin Akhter. 58. Knowledge and practice of water use in selected arsenic affected villages/Anis Ahmed. 59. Effect of spirulina in the treatment of chronic arsenic poisoning/Muhammad Asadul Huq. 60. Arsenicosis and BMI in a selected area of Bangladesh/Md. Iqbal Kabir. 61. Knowledge of physicians on arsenicosis and disease profile in different health complexes of arsenic affected and non-affected districts/Mezbahul Karim. 62. Dermatological manifestations of chronic arsenic toxicity/Md. Shahidullah Sikder. 63. Effects of chronic arsenic exposure on nutritional status of children (6-12 yrs.) in a selected area of Bangladesh/Tahmina Shamsunnahar Ahmad. 64. Influence of acetlator phenotype in chronic arsenism/Abu Sayed Md. Zakaria. 65. Effect of spirulina on arsenic accumulation in different organs of rat/A.H.M. Ismot Kabir, M. Misbahuddin and S.A.R. Choudhury. 66. Nutritional status among the arsenic exposed & non-exposed persons in some selected areas of Bangladesh/Tauhid Md. Hassanuzzaman. 67. Association between cutaneous manifestations and systemic involvement in patients with chronic arsenicosis/Shafiqul Islam. V. List of completed research studies and books/monographs.