UNM professor publishes paper on arsenic sources
December 18, 2022 - Savannah Peat
A health crisis which exists in Chile and Bangladesh, also has profound dangers right here in the Southwestern United States.
Arsenic, a toxic, chemical element, is linked to a number of adverse health issues, like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer when people are exposed to it.
Its presence and impact in those two countries, and on the Navajo Nation, was studied jointly by University of New Mexico Associate Professor Yan Lin and her doctoral student Daniel Beene in the Department of Geography & Environmental Studies and the UNM Metals Exposure and Toxicity Assessment on Tribal Lands in the Southwest (UNM METALS) Superfund Research Program Center, and a team of four others from Columbia University and University of California (UC Berkeley) Superfund Research Programs.
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