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Marie Vahter is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and medicine, with significant contributions in related subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, nutrition and dietetics, environmental chemistry, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and water science and technology.

The scientist's work centres on topics including heavy metal exposure and toxicity, arsenic contamination and mitigation, mercury impact and mitigation studies, child nutrition and water access, fluoride effects and removal, birth, development, and health, as well as the broader area of heavy metals in the environment.

Frequent publication venues for Marie Vahter include Environment International, Environmental Research, ISEE Conference Abstracts, Environmental Pollution, and the Journal of Nutrition. These venues reflect an emphasis on environmental and health-related research.

Marie Vahter's recent papers demonstrate a focus on exposure to heavy metals and the effects on health across various populations and age groups:

  • "Prenatal and childhood arsenic exposure through drinking water and food and cognitive abilities at 10 years of age: A prospective cohort study" (2020) in Environment International
  • "Low-level maternal exposure to cadmium, lead, and mercury and birth outcomes in a Swedish prospective birth-cohort" (2020) in Environmental Pollution
  • "A longitudinal study of rural Bangladeshi children with long-term arsenic and cadmium exposures and biomarkers of cardiometabolic diseases" (2020) in Environmental Pollution
  • "Long-term cadmium exposure and fractures, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in a prospective cohort of women" (2022) in Environment International
  • "Executive functions in school children from Montevideo, Uruguay and their associations with concurrent low-level arsenic exposure" (2020) in Environment International

Frequent collaborators in Marie Vahter's research include Maria Kippler, Klara Gustin, Anna Sandin, Ann-Sofie Sandberg, and Agnes E. Wold. These collaborations indicate a network of researchers working broadly on environmental health and toxicology topics.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of arsenic biotransformation.

    Marie Vahter

  • Gender differences in the disposition and toxicity of metals

    Marie Vahter;Agneta Åkesson;Carola Lidén;Sandra Ceccatelli

  • Tubular and glomerular kidney effects in Swedish women with low environmental cadmium exposure.

    Agneta Åkesson;Thomas Lundh;Marie Vahter;Per Bjellerup

  • Exposure to inorganic arsenic metabolites during early human development.

    Gabriela Concha;Gerardo Vogler;Dora Lezcano;Barbro Nermell

  • Methylation of inorganic arsenic in different mammalian species and population groups.

    Marie Vahter

  • Cadmium-induced effects on bone in a population-based study of women.

    Agneta Åkesson;Per Bjellerup;Thomas Lundh;Jonas Lidfeldt

  • Effects of arsenic on maternal and fetal health.

    Marie Vahter

  • Intestinal absorption of dietary cadmium in women depends on body iron stores and fiber intake.

    Marika Berglund;Agneta Akesson;Barbro Nermell;Marie Vahter

  • Metals and Women's Health

    M. Vahter;M. Berglund;A. Åkesson;C. Lidén

  • Role of Metabolism in Arsenic Toxicity

    Marie Vahter;Gabriela Concha

  • Toxic and essential elements in placentas of Swedish women.

    Katarina Osman;Agneta Åkesson;Marika Berglund;Katarina Bremme

  • Inter-individual variations of human mercury exposure biomarkers: a cross-sectional assessment

    Marika Berglund;Birger Lind;Karolin Ask Björnberg;Brita Palm

  • Genetic polymorphism in the biotransformation of inorganic arsenic and its role in toxicity.

    Marie Vahter

  • Health effects of early life exposure to arsenic

    Marie Vahter

  • Metabolism of arsenobetaine in mice, rats and rabbits

    Marie Vahter;Erminio Marafante;Lennart Dencker

  • Longitudinal study of methylmercury and inorganic mercury in blood and urine of pregnant and lactating women, as well as in umbilical cord blood.

    Marie Vahter;Agneta Åkesson;Birger Lind;Ulla Björs

  • Species differences in the metabolism of arsenic compounds

    Marie Vahter

  • Biotransformation of trivalent and pentavalent inorganic arsenic in mice and rats.

    Marie Vahter

  • A unique metabolism of inorganic arsenic in native Andean women

    Marie Vahter;Gabriela Concha;Barbro Nermell;Robert Nilsson

  • Association of arsenic exposure during pregnancy with fetal loss and infant death: a cohort study in Bangladesh.

    Anisur Rahman;Marie Vahter;Eva-Charlotte Ekström;Mahfuzar Rahman

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Åke Persson
Lars Åke Persson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Rubhana Raqib
Rubhana Raqib International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Walter Goessler
Walter Goessler University of Graz
Gunnar Jacks
Gunnar Jacks Royal Institute of Technology
Jochen Bundschuh
Jochen Bundschuh University of Southern Queensland
Shams El Arifeen
Shams El Arifeen International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Peter Rudnai
Peter Rudnai National Institutes of Health
Staffan Skerfving
Staffan Skerfving Lund University
Sandra Ceccatelli
Sandra Ceccatelli Karolinska Institute
Bo Lönnerdal
Bo Lönnerdal University of California, Davis

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