Landscapes of longevity: the calcium-selenium-mercury connection in cancer and heart disease.
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.
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Department of Geography, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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
D012643:Selenium; D002118:Calcium