Spatiotemporal lag effects of surface water quality on liver cirrhosis mortality risk in China: a nine-year time-series study of environmental driving mechanism.

BMC Public Health · 2026 · PMC13059183 · PMID 41772549

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Among pollutant indicators, COD Cr exhibited a very strong positive correlation with TP (r = 0.937, p < 0.001), while BOD 5 showed a moderate correlation with COD Cr ( r = 0.490), although this association did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.106).

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