TY - JOUR
T1 - Maternal exposure to alkali, alkali earth, transition and other metals: Concentrations and predictors of exposure
AU - Hinwood, A.L.
AU - Stasinska, Ania
AU - Callan, A.C.
AU - Heyworth, Jane
AU - Ramalingam, M.
AU - Boyce, M.
AU - Mccafferty, P.
AU - Odland, J.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Copyright © 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Most studies of metals exposure focus on the heavy metals. There are many other metals (the transition, alkali and alkaline earth metals in particular) in common use in electronics, defense industries, emitted via combustion and which are naturally present in the environment, that have received limited attention in terms of human exposure. We analysed samples of whole blood (172), urine (173) and drinking water (172) for antimony, beryllium, bismuth, cesium, gallium, rubidium, silver, strontium, thallium, thorium and vanadium using ICPMS. In general most metals concentrations were low and below the analytical limit of detection with some high concentrations observed. Few factors examined in regression models were shown to influence biological metals concentrations and explained little of the variation. Further study is required to establish the source of metals exposures at the high end of the ranges of concentrations measured and the potential for any adverse health impacts in children. Crown
AB - Copyright © 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Most studies of metals exposure focus on the heavy metals. There are many other metals (the transition, alkali and alkaline earth metals in particular) in common use in electronics, defense industries, emitted via combustion and which are naturally present in the environment, that have received limited attention in terms of human exposure. We analysed samples of whole blood (172), urine (173) and drinking water (172) for antimony, beryllium, bismuth, cesium, gallium, rubidium, silver, strontium, thallium, thorium and vanadium using ICPMS. In general most metals concentrations were low and below the analytical limit of detection with some high concentrations observed. Few factors examined in regression models were shown to influence biological metals concentrations and explained little of the variation. Further study is required to establish the source of metals exposures at the high end of the ranges of concentrations measured and the potential for any adverse health impacts in children. Crown
U2 - 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.04.024
DO - 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.04.024
M3 - Article
VL - 204
SP - 256
EP - 263
JO - Environmental Pollution
JF - Environmental Pollution
SN - 0269-7491
ER -
