Mercury poisoning in women and infants inhabiting the Gangetic plains of Bihar: risk assessment - Kumar, Arun; Agarwal, Radhika; Kumar, Kanhaiya; Chayal, Nirmal Kumar; Kumar, Govind; Kumar, Rajiv; Ali, Mohammad; Srivastava, Abhinav; Aryal, Siddhant; Pandey, Tejasvi; Verma, Kumar Sambhav; Kumar, Dhruv; et al. (BMC public health, 2025)
Keywords: Adult; Bioaccumulation; Blood; Breast milk; Breastfeeding & lactation; Breastmilk; Carcinogens; Coal-fired power plants; Composition; Contaminants; Contamination; Correlation; Dimethylmercury; Environmental Exposure - analysis; Female; Food chains; Food contamination; Food contamination & poisoning; Geospatial mapping; Health aspects; Health risk assessment; Health risks; Humans; India - epidemiology; Industrial plant emissions; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Infants; Informed consent; Lactating mothers; Medical research; Mercury; Mercury (metal); Mercury (planet); Mercury - analysis; Mercury - blood; Mercury - urine; Mercury poisoning; Mercury Poisoning - epidemiology; Methods; Methylmercury; Milk; Milk, Human - chemistry; Mothers; Nervous system; Plasma; Poisoning; Population studies; Prevention; Risk Assessment; Risk factors; Sediments; Toxicity; Urine; Young Adult; India; Bihar India; Geospatial mapping; Infants; Mercury poisoning; Breastmilk; Lactating mothers