Accepted for Publication: September 1, 2021.
Published: November 15, 2021. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.32777
Open Access: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC-BY License. © 2021 Barnwal P et al. JAMA Network Open.
Corresponding Author: Alexander van Geen, PhD, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 (avangeen@ldeo.columbia.edu).
Author Contributions: Drs Barnwal and van Geen had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Drs Barnwal and Yao contributed equally to the study.
Concept and design: Barnwal, Yao, Wang, Haque, van Geen.
Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: Barnwal, Yao, Wang, Juy, Raihan, van Geen.
Drafting of the manuscript: Barnwal, Yao, Wang, van Geen.
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: All authors.
Statistical analysis: Yao, Wang, Raihan.
Obtained funding: Barnwal, van Geen.
Administrative, technical, or material support: Barnwal, Juy, Raihan, Haque.
Supervision: Barnwal, Juy, Raihan, Haque, van Geen.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.
Funding/Support: The arsenic mitigation trial that set the stage for this study was supported by National Science Foundation SBE awards 1851928 (to Dr Barnwal) and 1853289 (to Dr van Geen).
Role of the Funder/Sponsor: The funder had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Additional Contributions: We thank the large teams of enumerators involved in the field and telephone surveys. We particularly thank the residents of our study villages whose patience in a stressful situation was tested by a number of long telephone calls. Joel Cohen, PhD (Rockefeller University and Columbia University), Mushfiq Mobarak, PhD (Yale University), Stephen Luby, MD (Stanford University), and Jeffrey Shaman, PhD (Columbia University), provided helpful advice over the course of the study; they were not compensated for their contributions.
Additional Information: Data and code are available at https://github.com/yao-yl/mortalityPaper. All confidential information was removed from the posted survey data.
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