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Medicina Legal de Costa Rica
versión On-line ISSN 2215-5287versión impresa ISSN 1409-0015
Resumen
SABORIO MORALES, Lachiner y HIDALGO MURILLO, Luis Fernando. Consumo de arsénico y riesgo cardiovascular. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2015, vol.32, n.1, pp.114-118. ISSN 2215-5287.
Arsenic (As) is an element considered as ubiquitous. Its sources may be natural or manmade. The exposure to this element occurs mainly orally. Inorganic ‘As’ presentations are considered the most toxic. Arsenic absorption occurs in the small intestine, and through aquaporin, entering hepatocytes in chronic intake tends. The element (As) tends to get accumulated in the liver, kidneys, heart, nervous system, lung, muscle, gastrointestinal tract, and spleen. Chronic consumption of water with arsenic concentrations above the reference value given by the World Health Organization has shown an increased risk of cerebrovascular accident (CVA), Hypertension (HT), carotid atherosclerosis, peripheral arterial disease, mortality from acute myocardial infarction (AMI), increased cardiovascular disease in the pediatric population, and type II diabetes mellitus.
Palabras clave : Inorganic arsenic; organic arsenic; cardiovascular risk.