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Landscapes of longevity: the calcium-selenium-mercury connection in cancer and heart disease
1Department of Geography, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Medical Hypotheses
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
Cancer and heart disease display spatial patterns that suggest the possible involvement of calcium and selenium deficiencies and mercury excess in their aetiologies. As a consequence, longevity tends to be most common in regions where the environment is calcium- and selenium-enriched but contains only low levels of mercury. Examples are cited from West Africa, China, England and the USA.