Arsenic in tube well water in Bangladesh: health and economic impacts and implications for arsenic mitigation
Sara V Flanagan, Richard B Johnston & Yan Zheng
Volume 90, Number 11, November 2012, 839-846
Table 5. Population attributable fraction (PAF) of deaths and excess deaths (ED) from arsenic exposure based on hazard ratios from two published sources, Bangladesh
| Arsenic concentration (µg/L) | Percentage exposed | PAF (Sohel et al.) |
PAF (Argos et al.) |
ED (Sohel et al.) |
ED (Argos et al.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < 10 | 68.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.1–50 | 18.7 | 0.138 | 0.254 | 19 140 | 35 210 |
| 50.1–150 | 8.6 | 0.206 | 0.083 | 13 250 | 5302 |
| 150.1–300 | 3.0 | 0.265 | 0.405 | 6504 | 9945 |
| > 300 | 1.8 | 0.259 | 0.405 | 3823 | 5969 |
| Total | 100.0 | 0.056 | 0.074 | 42 717 | 56 425 |
| > 50 μg/L only | 13.4 | 0.030 | 0.027 | 23 577 | 21 215 |