Community-driven research in the canadian arctic: dietary exposure to methylmercury and gastric health outcomes

Indigenous Arctic Canadians have a higher prevalence of gastric neoplasms relative to North Americans of European ancestry. We investigated the hypothesis that low-dose methylmercury exposure from eating fish/whale increases the risk of gastric cancer in Arctic communities. We used intermediate endp...

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Main Authors: Emily V. Walker, Safwat Girgis, Yan Yuan, Karen J. Goodman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021-01-01
Series:International Journal of Circumpolar Health
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2021.1889879