Hardness of drinking-water and cardiovascular disease
Proceedings of The Nutrition SocietyPublished 1 December 1972Open access
Margaret D. Crawford
Citations37
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In the sixty-one large county boroughs of England and Wales the correlation coefficients between cardiovascular death rates and water hardness are negative and highly significant ; they arc greatest with water calcium and the carbonate fraction; correlations with sodium are much lower and with magnesium, negligible.
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