Fluoride in drinking water and cancer mortality in Taiwan
C Y Yang1, M F Cheng, S S Tsai
1School of Public Health, Kaohsiung Medical College, Kaohsiung, 80708, Taiwan.
Abstract:
The possibility that cancer risk is associated with naturally fluoridated water in Taiwan is examined. The 1982-1991 age-adjusted mortality rates for cancer for 10 municipalities whose water supplies contained the highest naturally occurring fluoride concentrations in Taiwan were compared to those rates for 10 matched municipalities with unfluoridated water. The two groups had similar urbanization levels and sociodemographic characteristics. Our study does not support the suggestion that fluoridation of water supplies is associated with an increase in cancer mortality in Taiwan.
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