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...

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under review there for weeks, just received the news they will no longer wait for reviewers' comments and it was withdrawn by the journal.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)?

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

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

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).

Endorsing @pokateo.bsky.social's post on twitter the other day:
twitter.com/pokateo_maps...

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