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Serum Total Antioxidant Status and Oxidative Stress Marker Levels of Subjects in a Lead-Zinc Mining Community of Ebonyi State, Nigeria: Evidence of Lead Intoxication [PDF]
Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, 2023 Background: This study intended to investigate blood lead and serum total antioxidant capacity and oxidative stress marker levels of subjects in a lead-zinc mining community of Ebonyi State, Nigeria.Methods: Sixty-eight (68) occupationally-exposed (OE ...
Aniema Ituen +6 more
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 BackgroundWhile the relationship between blood pressure and blood lead has been studied more extensively, the effect of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) concentration on this relationship remains uncertain.
Biao Hu +9 more
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 BackgroundMetals can interfere with hormonal functioning through indirect mechanisms and by binding at the receptor site; thus, they may be associated with hormonal changes.
Kaiyu Pan +4 more
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Salud Pública de México, 2023 Objetivo. Describir y actualizar al año 2022 la prevalencia de intoxicación por plomo (Pb) en la población infantil de 1-4 años en México y describir fuentes de exposición ambiental, paraocupacional y uso de barro vidriado (BV).
Luis F Bautista-Arredondo +9 more
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Does Information on Blood Heavy Metals Improve Cardiovascular Mortality Prediction?
Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019 Background To evaluate whether blood markers of lead, cadmium, and mercury can improve prediction for cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality when added individually, jointly, or as an integrative index/Environmental Risk Score (ERS), in a model with ...
Xin Wang +2 more
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International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2015 Objectives: Widespread use of heavy metal lead (Pb) for various commercial purposes has resulted in the environmental contamination caused by this metal.
Rajashekar Rao Barkur +1 more
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Epigenetics, 2022 Lead (Pb) exposure has adverse health effects and altered DNA methylation may contribute to Pb toxicity. LINE-1 is an interspersed repeated DNA that is used as a surrogate marker for estimating genomic DNA methylation levels, and GSTP1 is an isozyme that
Yared Beyene Yohannes +10 more
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Public Health Research & Practice, 2022 Objectives: To describe blood lead levels (BLLs) and their distribution among children in Broken Hill, New South Wales (NSW), at each of the scheduled testing points aligned with childhood immunisation and to determine how BLLs change over time for ...
David M Lyle +2 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a life-threatening neurodegenerative disease of the elderly. In recent observations, exposure to heavy metals environmental may increase the risk of AD.
Chunying Li +5 more
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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 As a heavy metal, lead is a common toxic agent. Its accumulation in the body is harmful to physical health, particularly in children and adolescents. Studies have reported that folate may play a protective role in lead exposure.
Huan He, Zhan Zhang, Min Li
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