In 54 cases of accidental death in cities with water hardness of 60 parts per million (ppm) or
less, the mean myocardial magnesium concentration was 918 mug/g of dry tissue. This was 7…

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to be the major cause of mortality in developed
countries. For the past two-and-a-half decades the inverse relationship between water …

An attempt has been made to quantify the effect of waterborne magnesium on human
mortality/morbidity, based on epidemiological and clinical observations reported in several regions …

The relationship of waterborne minerals to the incidence of mortality is pursued in this article
which also includes water analysis data from 575 Canadian communities. Magnesium …

Analysis of data collected during the Canada Health Survey of 1978-1979 indicated a positive
relationship between blood lead and blood pressure, but so weak that the range of lead-…

Six years' mortality data relating to males aged 35-64 who were resident in each of 516
Canadian municipalities have been analysed with respect to certified cause of death, to local …

Contemporary interest in the „relationship between health and mineral characteristics of
local water supplies originated from the epidemiologic studies of Kobayashi in Japan (1) and …

Because of excessive reliance on the method of ecological correlation, in which the units of
study are entire communities, there have been few agreed conclusions concerning the …

Neri, LC (Dept. Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada),
D. Hewitt and JS Mandel. Risk of sudden death in soft water areas. Amer J Epidem 94: …

Spirometric tests of 3280 Ottawa residents in 1969-71 and 2208 Sudbury residents in 1972-73
showed that the mean ratio of forced vital capacity to forced expiratory volume in 1 …