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Results of a new study find that trace levels of arsenic found in American drinking water could be putting people at greater risk of developing diabetes.
This conclusion is based on the analyzing of more than 750 medical samples of adult medical tests that found the likelyhood of people developing type 2 diabetes was present if their urine was found to contain trace levels of arsenic.
Diabetes is taking the USA by storm and this may be one of the reasons why this is the case, state the researchers.
“People who get their drinking water from private wells and live in areas where groundwater is naturally contaminated with arsenic are at an especially high risk of being exposed to water with levels above the 10 parts per billion acceptable limit set by the Environmental Protection Agency,” said the researchers from Johns Hopkins University.
“Given widespread exposure to inorganic arsenic from drinking water worldwide, elucidating the contribution of arsenic to the diabetes epidemic is a public health research priority with potential implications for the prevention and control of diabetes,” the authors conclude.
The study is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
