Health Effects for Arsenic Longitudinal Study Bangladesh （HEALS）
Initiatives
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Evaluate the effects of full-dose range arsenic (As) exposure on various health outcomes, including premalignant and malignant skin tumors, totalmortality, pregnancy outcomes, and children’s cognitive development.
*Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.*
- Start Year
- 2000
- Funding
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Grants # P42 ES10349 and# P30 ES09089. And US National Institutes of Health.
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Every two years subsequently
Marker Paper
Ahsan, H., Chen, Y., Parvez, F. et al. Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (HEALS): Description of a multidisciplinary epidemiologic investigation. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 16, 191–205 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jea.7500449
PUBMED 16160703
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Other : Married couples
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 11,746
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- 11746 are the population-based participants (baseline - 2001). In 2016: Over the past 12 years, using a population-based sampling frame, we recruited >24,000 men and women
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
By contacting the study representative