Differences in health status of Slovak municipalities supplied with drinking water of different hardness values

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10653-020-00664-6" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10653-020-00664-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10653-020-00664-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10653-020-00664-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Differences in health status of Slovak municipalities supplied with drinking water of different hardness values

Original language description

This epidemiological study of ecological type deals with the analysis of relationship between drinking water hardness and health status of inhabitants of the Slovak Republic. This relationship was investigated in two groups of more than 50,000 inhabitants living in 53 different municipalities. The first group was supplied with drinking water with low hardness, and the second group was supplied with drinking water with increased hardness. The health status of the population of both groups was monitored by means of health indicators, which represented 15-year average values, for 1994-2008. We investigated four major causes of death, namely cardiovascular, oncological, gastrointestinal and respiratory tract mortality, and evaluated the average life expectancy. The health status of inhabitants supplied with drinking water with increased hardness was significantly better than the health status of people supplied with drinking water with low hardness. For example, the relative mortality for cardiovascular diseases, oncological diseases, digestive tract diseases and respiratory diseases was 56%, 62%, 128% and 121% higher in the population supplied with soft drinking water compared to the population supplied with hard water, respectively. In addition, life expectancy was more than 4.5 years higher in the population supplied with hard drinking water. Our observation confirms the findings of previous studies on relationship between the water hardness and human health.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

ISSN

0269-4042

e-ISSN

1573-2983

Volume of the periodical

43

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

2665-2677

UT code for WoS article

000551399900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85088433831