Lakes Drying and Their Adverse Effects on Human Health: A Systematic Review
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Homayoun SADEGHI-BAZARGANI
,
Hamid ALLAHVERDIPOUR
,
Mohammad ASGHARI JAFARABADI
,
Saber AZAMI-AGHDASH
Abstract
Background: One of the most important effects of many drying lakes in the world is increasing the emergence and outbreak of different diseases. For this sake, the present study aimed to systematically review the effects of lakes drying on human health.
Methods: The present systematic review was designed and conducted in 2017. Data were gathered by searching the Science Direct, Cochrane Library, Google Scholar, Scopus, PubMed, and Web of Knowledge databases, along with hand search of key journals and unpublished resources and contact with experts. There was no specific time span for the search.
Results: Overall, 22 articles were selected with 20 articles about Aral Lake drying. Almost all studies were cross-sectional and retrospective. In 8 studies, the participants were children. Seventeen articles lakes drying have adverse effects on human health. Based on the type of effect, the studies were classified into 7 categories (respiratory problems, reproductive system problems, kidney and urological diseases, cancers, anemia, and diarrhea).
Conclusion: Most studies depicted the harmful effects of lakes draught on human health; they had low level of evidence as they were mostly retrospective and cross-sectional. There is not enough evidence to accept or reject with high level of certainty the very effects of lakes drying on human health. To provide such evidence we suggest conducting middle and long term cohort and observational studies with scientific bases.
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46. Muntean N, Jermini M, Small I et al (2003). Assessment of dietary exposure to some persistent organic pollutants in the Republic of Karakalpakstan of Uzbekistan. Environ Health Perspect,111(10):1306-11.
47. Jensen S, Mazhitova Z, Zetterstrom R (1997). Environmental pollution and child health in the Aral Sea region in Kazakhstan. Sci Total Environ,206(2-3):187-193.
48. O'Hara SL, Wiggs GF, Mamedov B, Davidson G, Hubbard RB (2000). Exposure to airborne dust contaminated with pesticide in the Aral Sea region. Lancet, 355(9204):627-628.
49. Ataniyazova OA, Baumann RA, Liem AK et al (2001). Levels of certain metals, organochlorine pesticides and dioxins in cord blood, maternal blood, human milk and some commonly used nutrients in the surroundings of the Aral Sea (Karakalpakstan, Republic of Uzbekistan). Acta Paediatr, 90(7):801-808.
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2. Verger P, Ruijten M, Russell D et al (2007). Better planning for health impact assessment of disasters. Eur J Public Health,17(1):3.
3. Field C, Barros V, Stocker T, Qin D, Dokken D, Ebi K, et al. (2012). Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, and New York, NY, USA.
4. Jackson SF, Fazal N, Gravel G, Papowitz H (2017). Evidence for the value of health promotion interventions in natural disaster management. Health Promot Int, 32(6): 1057-1066.
5. Stanley SE, Faulkenberry JB (2014). Force health protection support following a natural disaster: the 227th Medical Detachment's role in response to Superstorm Sandy. J Spec Oper Med,14(4):106-112.
6. Micklin P (2007). The Aral Sea Disaster. Annu Rev Earth Planet Sci,35:47-72.
7. Eimanifar A, Mohebbi F (2007). Urmia Lake (Northwest Iran): a brief review. Saline Systems,3:5.
8. Gholampour A, Nabizadeh R, Hassanvand MS et al (2015). Characterization of saline dust emission resulted from Urmia Lake drying. J Environ Health Sci Eng,13:82.
9. Cox HS, Kubica T, Doshetov D et al (2005). The Beijing genotype and drug resistant tuberculosis in the Aral Sea region of Central Asia. Respir Res,6:134.
10. Herbst S, Fayzieva D, Kistemann T (2008). Risk factor analysis of diarrhoeal diseases in the Aral Sea area (Khorezm, Uzbekistan). Int J Environ Health Res,18(5):305-321.
11. Izhitskiy AS, Zavialov PO, Sapozhnikov PV et al (2016). Present state of the Aral Sea: diverging physical and biological characteristics of the residual basins. Sci Rep, 6:23906.
12. Kultanov BZ, Dosmagambetova RS, Ivasenko SA et al (2016). The Study of Cellular and Molecular Physiological Characteristics of Sperm in Men Living in the Aral Sea Region. Open Access Maced J Med Sci, 4(1):5-8.
13. Mamyrbayev A, Dyussembayeva N, Ibrayeva L et al (2016). Features of Malignancy Prevalence among Children in the Aral Sea Region. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev,17(12):5217-5221.
14. Mischke S, Liu C, Zhang J et al (2017). The world's earliest Aral-Sea type disaster: the decline of the Loulan Kingdom in the Tarim Basin. Sci Rep,7:43102.
15. Sakiev KZ (2014). [[On evaluation of public health state in Aral Sea area]. Med Tr Prom Ekol,(8):1-4.
16. Ono DM, Hardebeck E, Parker J, Cox BG (2000). Systematic biases in measured PM10 values with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-approved samplers at Owens Lake, California. J Air Waste Manag Assoc, 50(7):1144-1156.
17. Pikuta EV, Itoh T, Krader P et al (2006). Anaerovirgula multivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel spore-forming, alkaliphilic anaerobe isolated from Owens Lake, California, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 56(Pt 11):2623-2629.
18. S Khan K, Kunz R, Kleijnen J, Antes G (2011). Systematic reviews to support evidence-based medicine. edn, vol. 2.
19. Poorolajal J, Tajik P, Yazdizadeh B et al (2009). Quality Assessment of the Reporting of Cohort Studies before STROBE Statement. Iran J Epidemilogy, 5(1):17-26.
20. von Elm E, Altman DG, Egger M et al (2007). The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies. Ann Intern Med,147(8):573-577.
21. 21.von Elm E, Altman DG, Egger M et al (2007). The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies.PLoS Med,4(10):e296.
22. Hashizume M, Kunii O, Sasaki S et al (2003). Anemia and iron deficiency among schoolchildren in the Aral Sea region, Kazakhstan. J Trop Pediatr, 49(3):172-177.
23. Hashizume M, Shimoda T, Sasaki S et al (2004). Anaemia in relation to low bioavailability of dietary iron among school-aged children in the Aral Sea region, Kazakhstan. Int J Food Sci Nutr, 55(1):37-43.
24. Mamyrbayev A, Djarkenov T, Dosbayev A et al (2016). The Incidence of Malignant Tumors in Environmentally Disadvantaged Regions of Kazakhstan. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev,17(12):5203-5209.
25. Bilyalova Z, Igissinov N, Moore M et al (2012). Epidemiological evaluation of breast cancer in ecological areas of Kazakhstan--association with pollution emissions. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev, 13(5):2341-2344.
26. Herbst S, Kistemann T, Fayzieva D (2003). Comparison of the incidence of diarrhoeal diseases in two regions of the Aral Sea area, Uzbekistan. In: Environmental health risk II, Brebbia C, Fayzieva D (eds), pp 153-161. Southampton: WIT Press.
27. Kaneko K, Chiba M, Hashizume M et al (2002). Extremely high prevalence of hypercalciuria in children living in the Aral Sea region. Acta Paediatr, 91(10):1116-1120.
28. Riabinskii VS, Doschanov E, Istratov VG (1993). [Risk factors for the occurrence of nephrolithiasis in the Aral Sea region]. Urol Nefrol (Mosk),(4):19-21.
29. Kaneko K, Chiba M, Hashizume M et al (2003). Renal tubular dysfunction in children living in the Aral Sea Region. Arch Dis Child, 88(11):966-968.
30. Arustamov D, Fayzieva D, Nurullaev R, Klyopov Y (2001). Study on the rate of the urolithiasis in the Aral Sea area and the quality of potable water pp In: Environmental health risk, Fajzieva D, Brebbia C (eds), pp 105-111. Southampton: WIT Press.
31. Love GJ, Lan SP, Shy CM (1982). A study of acute respiratory disease in families exposed to different levels of Air pollution in the Great Salt Lake basin, Utah, 1971-1972 and 1972-1973. Environ Health Perspect, 44:165-174.
32. Gomez SR, Parker RA, Dosman JA, McDuffie HH (1992). Respiratory health effects of alkali dust in residents near desiccated Old Wives Lake. Arch Environ Health,47(5):364-369.
33. Kunii O, Hashizume M, Chiba M et al (2003). Respiratory symptoms and pulmonary function among school-age children in the Aral Sea region. Arch Environ Health, 58(11):676-682.
34. Bennion P, Hubbard R, O'Hara S et al (2007). The impact of airborne dust on respiratory health in children living in the Aral Sea region. Int J Epidemiol,36(5):1103-1110.
35. Kislitskaya VN, Kenzhin ZD, Kultanov BZ et al (2015). Disturbance of Antioxidant Enzymes and Purine Metabolism in the Ejaculate of Men Living in Disadvantaged Areas of Kyzylorda Region. Open Access Maced J Med Sci, 3(3): 489–492.
36. Turdybekova YG, Dosmagambetova RS, Zhanabayeva SU et al (2015). The Health Status of the Reproductive System in Women Living In the Aral Sea Region. Open Access Maced J Med Sci, 3(3):474-477.
37. Kislitskaya VN, Yesilbayeva BT, Kubayev AB et al (2014). The Level of Molecules of Average Mass and Lipid Peroxidation Processes in the Semen of Men of Reproductive Age in Kazalinsk District of Aral Sea Region. World J Med Sci,11(4):552-554.
38. Mazhitova Z, Jensen S, Ritzen M, Zetterstrom R (1998). Chlorinated contaminants, growth and thyroid function in schoolchildren from the Aral Sea region in Kazakhstan. Acta Paediatr,87(9):991-995.
39. Crighton EJ, Elliott SJ, Meer J, Small I, Upshur R (2003). Impacts of an environmental disaster on psychosocial health and well-being in Karakalpakstan. Soc Sci Med, 56(3):551-567.
40. Sousa A, Hill K, Dal Poz MR (2010). Sub-national assessment of inequality trends in neonatal and child mortality in Brazil. Int J Equity Health, 9:21.
41. Dickson KE, Simen-Kapeu A, Kinney MV et al (2014). Every Newborn: health-systems bottlenecks and strategies to accelerate scale-up in countries. Lancet, 384(9941):438-454.
42. Crighton EJ, Elliott SJ, Upshur R, van der Meer J, Small I (2003). The Aral Sea disaster and self-rated health. Health Place, 9(2):73-82.
43. Crighton EJ, Barwin L, Small I, Upshur R (2011). What have we learned? A review of the literature on children's health and the environment in the Aral Sea area. Int J Public Health,56(2):125-138.
44. Beard J (2006). DDT and human health. Sci Total Environ, 355(1-3):78-89.
45. Hooper K, Hopper K, Petreas MX et al (1997). Analysis of breast milk to assess exposure to chlorinated contaminants in Kazakstan: PCBs and organochlorine pesticides in southern Kazakstan. Environ Health Perspect,105(11):1250-1254.
46. Muntean N, Jermini M, Small I et al (2003). Assessment of dietary exposure to some persistent organic pollutants in the Republic of Karakalpakstan of Uzbekistan. Environ Health Perspect,111(10):1306-11.
47. Jensen S, Mazhitova Z, Zetterstrom R (1997). Environmental pollution and child health in the Aral Sea region in Kazakhstan. Sci Total Environ,206(2-3):187-193.
48. O'Hara SL, Wiggs GF, Mamedov B, Davidson G, Hubbard RB (2000). Exposure to airborne dust contaminated with pesticide in the Aral Sea region. Lancet, 355(9204):627-628.
49. Ataniyazova OA, Baumann RA, Liem AK et al (2001). Levels of certain metals, organochlorine pesticides and dioxins in cord blood, maternal blood, human milk and some commonly used nutrients in the surroundings of the Aral Sea (Karakalpakstan, Republic of Uzbekistan). Acta Paediatr, 90(7):801-808.
50. Kader M, Perera NK (2014). Socio-economic and nutritional determinants of low birth weight in India. N Am J Med Sci, 6(7):302-308.
51. Monaco J (2013). Cohort Study. In: Gellman MD, Turner JR. Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine, edn. New York, NY: Springer New York. Pp: 454-455.
52. Liddell FD (1988). The development of cohort studies in epidemiology: a review. J Clin Epidemiol, 41(12):1217-37.
53. Checkoway H, Pearce N, Dement JM (1989). Design and conduct of occupational epidemiology studies: II. Analysis of cohort data. Am J Ind Med, 15(4):63-73.
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SADEGHI-BAZARGANI H, ALLAHVERDIPOUR H, ASGHARI JAFARABADI M, AZAMI-AGHDASH S. Lakes Drying and Their Adverse Effects on Human Health: A Systematic Review. Iran J Public Health. 2019;48(2):227-237.
