Journal article
Health effects of aluminum: a critical review with emphasis on aluminum in drinking water
Abstract
A critical assessment of the epidemiologic evidence indicates that a real association between aluminum in drinking water and dementia (including Alzheimer's disease, AD) cannot be dismissed. However, all of the study designs had inherent weaknesses and the results could easily be produced by confounding factors. AD appears to be a multifactorial disease in which multiple genes interact with multiple exogenous factors. Genetic loci for AD have …
Authors
Nieboer E; Gibson BL; Oxman AD; Kramer JR
Journal
Environmental Reviews, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 29–81
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Publication Date
January 1, 1995
DOI
10.1139/a95-002
ISSN
1181-8700