PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | birth defects |
| Phenotype | C0007222|cardiovascular disease |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 22171378 | In 2011 three new studies showed strong associations between mtr mining and increased cardiovascular disease,15 increased frequency of birth defects,16 and reduced quality of life.17 in the first of these studies, hendryx and colleague laura esch compared mortality data from mtr mining areas, conventional mining areas, and nonmining areas within the four appalachian mtr mining states of kentucky, tennessee, virginia, and west virginia.15 they found 703 excess age-adjusted deaths from cardiovascular disease in mtr mining areas of the four states and 369 excess deaths in conventional mining areas, compared with nonmining areas within the same states. |
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