title: Landscapes of longevity: the calcium-selenium-mercury connection in cancer and heart disease.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Foster
mesh_terms: D000354:Africa, Western / Q000453:epidemiology; D002118:Calcium / Q000172:deficiency*; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008136:Longevity; D008630:Mercury Poisoning; D008954:Models, Biological; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D012643:Selenium / Q000172:deficiency*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D012643:Selenium; D002118:Calcium