Jörg Schullehner

Link to our study estimating that lowering nitrate levels in Danish drinking water could prevent ~120 colorectal cancer cases per year: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Link to press release:
mim.dk/nyheder/pres...

6 mg/L 🚰

The DK Ministry of the Environment had appointed an expert group, re-evaluating the drinking water standard for nitrate.

Their recommendation: lower it from 50 mg/L to 6 mg/L!

This is huge news and has potential for immense impact on water supply in Denmark, and especially public health!

Prenatal exposure to arsenic in drinking water and type 1 diabetes in a nationwide population-based cohort of Danish children Exposure to inorganic arsenic during pregnancy has been associated with immune dysregulation and shifts in leukocyte subpopulations critically involve…

New results from our water and health research group:
- even very low arsenic exposure increased risk of type 1 diabetes in children.
Great work by our research year student! Need for replication in other low-exposed populations
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We had a really cool paper on arsenic and diabetes under review there for weeks, just received the news they will no longer wait for reviewers' comments and it was withdrawn by the journal. Any good suggestions for alternatives (environmental epi, cool paper, exciting and novel results)?

Looks like one of the preeminent journals in my field, Environmental Health Perspectives, is shutting down - hopefully temporarily. I encourage authors with manuscripts under review there to preprint them ASAP if haven't done so already ehp.niehs.nih.gov/do/10.5555/b...

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Nice und top Graphiken, aber die x-Achse mit Zeit absteigend hat mich erst 😵🤯

Ny forskning: Vi kan spare menneskeliv og milliarder med mindre nitrat i drikkevandet Der er både menneskeliv at spare og en samfundsgevinst at hente, hvis vi sænker indholdet af nitrat i vores drikkevand.

Danish Environmental Minister does not rule out need for lowering nitrate standard in drinking water
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Danske og internationale forskere udsteder dødsdom over vandmiljøet - iltsvind i Danmark er 'histo... Miljøminister Magnus Heunicke understreger, at han vil tage alle værktøjer i brug for at redde vandmiljøet.

So here we provide another great argument for reducing nitrate levels in the environment, not only will we avoid hundreds of colorectal cancer cases, save billions related to health-effects, but also protect our ecosystems which are under severe pressure:
www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

Direct medical costs (~50 mio DKK) and especially indirect costs due to loss of life years (~2 billion DKK) outweigh heavily costs of reducing nitrate levels in drinking water - either by treatment or by land policy measures.

Using a detailed spatiotemporal exposure model, we calculated exposure to nitrate above ~ 4 mg/L in the entire population and estimated nitrate-attributable colorectal cancer cases: approx. 127 every year (95%CI: 44-214).

Health-economic valuation of lowering nitrate standards in drinking water related to colorectal canc... Nitrate in drinking water is a contaminant which can affect human health and has been associated with an increased risk of, amongst other diseases, co…

~120 colorectal cancer cases & ~2 billion DKK annually could be saved if nitrate levels in Danish drinking water were lowered significantly - new paper out:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First post from me on episky, not quite figured out if it's possible to write a longer thread 🤔

Endorsing @pokateo.bsky.social's post on twitter the other day:
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Environmental epi, modelling and mapping exposures (GIS), drinking water quality, agricultural exposures and lots and lots of data to be cleaned. Mainly using
#R
#QGIS
#python