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Nitrate Levels in Community Drinking Waters and Risk of IDDM: An ecological analysis

DOI

140

Citations

0

References

1992

Year

Jill N Kostraba, Elizabeth C Gay, Marian Rewers, Richard F. Hamman
Diabetes Care

Abstract

This ecological analysis suggests that low-level nitrate exposure through drinking water may play a role in the etiology of IDDM, perhaps as a promoter through the generation of free radicals.