The effect of soil on human health: an overview

JJ Steffan, EC Brevik, LC Burgess… - European journal of soil …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Soil has a considerable effect on human health, whether those effects are positive or
negative, direct or indirect. Soil is an important source of nutrients in our food supply and …

Methemoglobinemia: Infants at risk

SF Johnson - Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health …, 2019 - Elsevier
Methemoglobin is formed when the iron center in hemoglobin is oxidized from ferrous iron to
ferric iron. The functional consequence of this change is that hemoglobin is transformed to …

[HTML][HTML] Health risk assessment of groundwater nitrogen pollution in Songnen Plain

J Wu, J Bian, H Wan, Y Ma, X Sun - Ecotoxicology and Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Access to safe drinking water is one of the fundamental human rights and an important part
of healthy living. This study considered various land use methods, used geostatistical …

Nitrate contamination of groundwater in the Lower Volta River Basin of Ghana: sources and related human health risks

CD Egbi, GK Anornu, SY Ganyaglo… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
A significant population within the Lower Volta River Basin of Ghana relies solely on
untreated groundwater (GW) and surface water (SW) for various purposes. However …

Health risk assessment for exposure to nitrate in drinking water from village wells in Semarang, Indonesia

R Sadler, B Maetam, B Edokpolo, D Connell, J Yu… - Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
The levels of nitrate in 52 drinking water wells in rural Central Java, Indonesia were
evaluated in April 2014, and the results were used for a health risk assessment for the local …

Non-carcinogenic health risk assessment of nitrate in bottled drinking waters sold in Iranian markets: A Monte Carlo simulation

B Kamarehie, A Jafari, A Zarei, Y Fakhri… - … and Quality Assurance, 2019 - Springer
The main objective of the current research was to evaluate nitrate content in different brands
of bottled drinking waters sold in Iranian markets using the available data in the literature …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying nitrate pollution sources of shallow groundwater and related health risks based on deterministic and Monte Carlo models: A study in Huaibei …

H Qiu, H Gui, H Xu, L Cui, Z Li, H Yu - Ecotoxicology and Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nitrate pollution in groundwater is a global environmental concern. As a result, accurate
identification of potential sources for such pollution is of critical significance to the effective …

[HTML][HTML] Thymoquinone therapy remediates elevated brain tissue inflammatory mediators induced by chronic administration of food preservatives

AM Hamdan, MM Al-Gayyar, MEE Shams… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Continuous exposure to preservatives such as nitrite salts has deleterious effects on
different organs. Meanwhile, Nigella sativa oil can remediate such organ dysfunction. Here …

Effects of encapsulated nitrate on eating behavior, rumen fermentation, and blood profile of beef heifers fed restrictively or ad libitum,

C Lee, RC Araujo, KM Koenig… - Journal of Animal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A slow-release form of nitrate (encapsulated nitrate [EN]) was investigated for
effects on risk of toxicity, feed consumption rates, and feed sorting behavior in 2 …

Evaluation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and physicochemical parameters in groundwater, impacted by dairy farms in Hatillo, Puerto Rico

F Bello, L Echevarría - PSM Biological Research, 2023 - psmjournals.org
The dairy industry produces many contaminants. This industry constantly uses a water
resource in its processes, which carries these contaminants through the soil to groundwater …