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Review
. 2020 Jan 20:7:169-173.
doi: 10.1016/j.toxrep.2020.01.005. eCollection 2020.

Carbon monoxide poisoning

Hiroshi Kinoshita  1 , Hülya Türkan  2 , Slavica Vucinic  3 , Shahab Naqvi  4 , Rafik Bedair  5 , Ramin Rezaee  6   7 , Aristides Tsatsakis  8
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Review

Carbon monoxide poisoning

Hiroshi Kinoshita et al. Toxicol Rep. .

Abstract

Carbon monoxide (CO) is the leading cause of poisoning deaths in many countries, including Japan. Annually, CO poisoning claims about 2000-5000 lives in Japan, which is over half of the total number of poisoning deaths. This paper discusses the physicochemical properties of CO and the toxicological evaluation of CO poisoning.

Keywords: Carbon monoxide; Carboxyhemoglobin; Measurement; Pathophysiology; Toxicity.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.

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Statistics on annual numbers of death by CO poisoning in Japan (2000–2015).
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