Hair Mercury Analysis and Its Application to Exposure Studies in NHEXAS and NHANES IV

2000 ◽  
pp. 237-244
Author(s):  
G. M. Cramer ◽  
K. Bangerter ◽  
R. Fernando ◽  
G. M. Meaburn ◽  
E. Pellizzari
Keyword(s):  
Hair Mercury ◽  
Mercury Analysis

scholarly journals Application of hair-mercury analysis to determine the impact of a seafood advisory

2005 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pál Weihe ◽  
Philippe Grandjean ◽  
Poul J. Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Hair Mercury ◽  
Mercury Analysis ◽  
The Impact

The Effect of Vitamin C for Mercury Excretion by Hair Mercury Analysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (9) ◽  
pp. 717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeong-Yun Lee ◽  
Ho-Seob Lihm ◽  
Jong-Soon Choi ◽  
Hyeong-Soo Cha
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin C ◽  
Hair Mercury ◽  
Mercury Analysis

scholarly journals Public health benefits of hair-mercury analysis and dietary advice in lowering methylmercury exposure in pregnant women

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 444-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Line E. Kirk ◽  
Jan S. Jørgensen ◽  
Flemming Nielsen ◽  
Philippe Grandjean
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Public Health Intervention ◽  
Health Benefit ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Dietary Advice ◽  
Hair Mercury ◽  
Mercury Analysis ◽  
Methylmercury Exposure

Aims: To evaluate whether a public health intervention using focused dietary advice combined with a hair-mercury analysis can lower neurotoxic methylmercury exposure among pregnant women without decreasing their overall intake of seafood. Methods: A total of 146 pregnant women were consecutively recruited from the antenatal clinic at a Danish university hospital at their initial ultrasound scan. Dietary advice was provided on avoiding methylmercury exposure from large predatory fish and a hair sample from each participant was analysed for mercury, with the results being communicated shortly thereafter to the women. A dietary questionnaire was filled in. Follow-up three months later included a dietary questionnaire and a repeat hair-mercury analysis. Results: In the follow-up group, 22% of the women had hair-mercury concentrations above a safe limit of 0.58 µg/g at enrolment, decreasing to 8% three months later. Average hair-mercury concentrations decreased by 21%. However, the total seafood intake remained at the same level after three months. Conclusions:Increased exposure to methylmercury among pregnant women is an important public health concern in Denmark. The observed lowering of hair-mercury concentrations associated with dietary advice corresponds to a substantial public health benefit that probably makes such an intervention highly profitable.

Risk of Mercury exposure during childhood: a review of Sri Lankan situation

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-232
Author(s):  
Himan K. A. Galappaththi ◽  
Inoka Suraweera
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Fish Consumption ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Mercury Level ◽  
Fluorescent Light ◽  
Aquatic Life ◽  
Hair Mercury ◽  
Coastal Belt ◽  
High Mercury

AbstractSri Lanka had ratified the Minamata convention in the year 2017 and is planning to phase out Mercury by 2020. Mercury thermometers and compact fluorescent light bulbs are abundant at hospitals, households and schools. Limitations in safe disposal and containment mechanisms have enhanced the unregulated e-waste collection and extraction. Sri Lanka has plentiful lagoons, fishing bays, and inland irrigation systems. Fish consumption is high, especially around the coastal belt. Mercury can bioaccumulate in humans by the consumption of fish from contaminated sources. Children are at risk of exposure in their living environments and via food. A multicountry study done across three oceans on Mercury threat to women & children revealed, lagoon pollution from industrial Mercury emissions in Sri Lanka, possessing high Mercury among local females who consume fish from that lagoon. The mean hair Mercury level in coastal areas with high fish consumption exceeded the reference dose even among children. Aquatic life and crop studies revealed a mixed picture of Mercury levels which some are lower and some are higher than the permissible levels. Studies on environmental Mercury levels and correlations with health effects among children will help to fill the data gap. Public awareness of the health effects of Mercury and mechanisms of Mercury disposal should be established.

Hair mercury concentrations in cats anddogs in Central Japan

1995 ◽  
Vol 151 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Sakai ◽  
M. Ito ◽  
H. Aoki ◽  
K. Aimi ◽  
R. Nitaya
Keyword(s):  
Central Japan ◽  
Hair Mercury

Hair mercury levels, intake of omega-3 fatty acids and ovarian reserve among women attending a fertility center

2021 ◽  
Vol 237 ◽  
pp. 113825
Author(s):  
Lidia Mínguez-Alarcón ◽  
Paige L. Williams ◽  
Irene Souter ◽  
Caitlin Sacha ◽  
Chitra J. Amarasiriwardena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Ovarian Reserve ◽  
Omega 3 Fatty Acids ◽  
Omega 3 ◽  
Hair Mercury

scholarly journals Associations of the serum long-chain n-3 PUFA and hair mercury with resting heart rate, peak heart rate during exercise and heart rate recovery after exercise in middle-aged men

2017 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Behnam Tajik ◽  
Sudhir Kurl ◽  
Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen ◽  
Kai Savonen ◽  
Jyrki K. Virtanen
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Heart Rate Recovery ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Cycle Ergometer ◽  
Resting Heart Rate ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Hair Mercury ◽  
Ergometer Exercise ◽  
Long Chain

AbstractLong-chain n-3 PUFA from fish have been associated with lower risk of CVD. Fish may also contain methylmercury, which may attenuate the inverse associations of the long-chain n-3 PUFA. However, the mechanisms underlying these associations are not fully known. We evaluated the associations of the serum long-chain n-3 PUFA (EPA, DPA and DHA) and hair Hg with resting heart rate (HR), peak HR during cycle ergometer exercise and HR recovery after exercise. A total of 1008 men from the population-based Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study, aged 42–60 years and free of CVD, were studied. After multivariate-adjustments in ANCOVA, higher serum total long-chain n-3 PUFA concentration was associated with lower resting HR (extreme-quartile difference 2·2 beats/min; 95 % CI 0·2, 4·1, Ptrend across quartiles=0·02), but not with peak HR or HR recovery. Associations were generally similar when EPA, DPA and DHA were evaluated individually, except for DPA, which was also associated with better HR recovery after exercise (extreme-quartile difference 2·1 beats/min; 95 % CI 0·1, 4·2, Ptrend=0·06). Higher hair Hg content had a trend towards lower peak HR after adjusting for the long-chain n-3 PUFA (Ptrend=0·05), but it only slightly attenuated the associations of the serum long-chain n-3 PUFA with HR. These findings suggest that higher serum long-chain n-3 PUFA concentrations are associated with lower resting HR in middle-aged men from Eastern Finland, which may partially explain the potential cardioprotective effect of fish intake.

scholarly journals Blood and hair mercury concentrations among Cree First Nations ofEeyou Istchee(Quebec, Canada): time trends, prenatal exposure and links to local fish consumption

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 1474706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susannah Ripley ◽  
Elizabeth Robinson ◽  
Louise Johnson-Down ◽  
Anne Andermann ◽  
Pierre Ayotte ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Prenatal Exposure ◽  
Fish Consumption ◽  
Time Trends ◽  
Hair Mercury

Theoretical and practical aspects in determining the current geochemical status of the Crimean peninsula and anthropogenic risk to public health

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Evstafeva ◽  
Svetlana Tymchenko ◽  
Anna Bogdanova ◽  
Olga Zalata ◽  
Yuliia Boyarinceva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Chemical Elements ◽  
Ecological Monitoring ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
Mercury Analysis ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Biological Substrates ◽  
Cadmium Selenium

<p>The implementation of basic principles of medical and ecological monitoring programs in Crimea previously reported in EGU proceedings consists of determining the content of a wide range of toxic, essential and rare earth elements in various biological substrates: soil, plants, water, human body. Biosubstrates are sampled in different locations with contrast natural and anthropogenic conditions: urbanized-rural, industrial-agricultural, natural resources. Lichens and poplar leaves are used as indicators of environmental contamination, particularly atmospheric pollution; liquid precipitation is used as an indicator showing the negative impact of air pollution on ecosystems; hair is used as an indicator of the total body intake of chemical elements. The update of databases, on some of the territories (Simferopol, Sevastopol, geographical regions with different soil characteristics, etc.) with regard to some of the elements (mercury, lead, cadmium, selenium, etc.) at this stage allowed to determine their biogeochemical status in conditions of intensive growth of anthropogenic load in recent years, and to compare it with the elemental status of the humans living in this territory. The databases for other types of territories continue to be extended, the relationship between morbidity to estimate of the environmental burden of disease for environmentally determined diseases (neurodegenerative, endocrine, respiratory, etc.) and chemical load on the territories, based on USEtox model; the functional state of target systems (nervous, immune, cardiovascular) and level of chemical elements in the human body and the overall elemental imbalance, is established. This has provided us with a degree of understanding on how the degree of population and individual health risk could be determined.</p><p>Mercury analysis was funded by RFBR according to the research project № 18-29-24212\19 entitled “Development of neutralization of mercury-containing waste without heating and the formation of wastewater”, 2018–2021 years; elemental composition was possible to determine due to RFBR project № 18-45-920042\20 entitled “Bioecological monitoring of heavy metals at board of Black Sea of Crimea”, 2018–2020 years. Physiological part of research was possible to accomplish due to funds by the V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (Project No VG2019/15, АААА-А20-120012090158-7).</p>

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