Margaret R Karagas1, Tracy Punshon2, Matt Davis3, Catherine M Bulka4, Francis Slaughter5, Despina Karalis5, Maria Argos4, Habibul Ahsan6. 1. Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03756, USA. Margaret.R.Karagas@dartmouth.edu. 2. Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA. 3. Department of Systems, Populations and Leadership, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA. 4. Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA. 5. Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03756, USA. 6. Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Rice is a major staple food worldwide and a dietary source of arsenic. We therefore summarized the state of the epidemiologic evidence on whether rice consumption relates to health outcomes associated with arsenic exposure. RECENT FINDINGS: While epidemiologic studies have reported that higher rice consumption may increase the risk of certain chronic conditions, i.e., type 2 diabetes, most did not consider specific constituents of rice or other sources of arsenic exposure. Studies that examined rice intake stratified by water concentrations of arsenic found evidence of increasing trends in cardiovascular disease risk, skin lesions, and squamous cell skin cancers and bladder cancer associated with higher rice consumption. Further studies are needed to understand the health impacts of arsenic exposure from rice consumption taking into account all sources of rice intake and potential confounding by other dietary constituents or contaminants and arsenic exposure from sources such as water.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Rice is a major staple food worldwide and a dietary source of arsenic. We therefore summarized the state of the epidemiologic evidence on whether rice consumption relates to health outcomes associated with arsenic exposure. RECENT FINDINGS: While epidemiologic studies have reported that higher rice consumption may increase the risk of certain chronic conditions, i.e., type 2 diabetes, most did not consider specific constituents of rice or other sources of arsenic exposure. Studies that examined rice intake stratified by water concentrations of arsenic found evidence of increasing trends in cardiovascular disease risk, skin lesions, and squamous cell skin cancers and bladder cancer associated with higher rice consumption. Further studies are needed to understand the health impacts of arsenic exposure from rice consumption taking into account all sources of rice intake and potential confounding by other dietary constituents or contaminants and arsenic exposure from sources such aswater.
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Arsenic; Diet; Epidemiology; Health effects; Rice
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