| View Larger Image | Mercury pollution and childhood in Amazon riverside villages [An article from: Environment International] | Digitalby M.C.N. Pinheiro (Author), M.E. Crespo-Lopez (Author), J.L.F. Vieira (Author)
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| | Binding: | Digital | | Publisher: | Elsevier | | Page Count: | 5 Pages | | Publication Date: | January 01, 2007 |
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This digital document is a journal article from Environment International, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: Mercury is a hazardous metal responsible for environmental contamination and human intoxication. Methylmercury, a very toxic organic compound, bioaccumulates through food chain, and is responsible for chronic mercury exposure of riverside Amazonian communities with a diet rich in fish. Uncertainties about the reference exposure dose that could have damaging consequences for nervous system development makes necessary the biomonitoring of these Amazonian populations, especially children. In this work, a comparative study was performed in exposed and non-exposed children living in the Amazon. A total of 168 children were analyzed to find possible correlations between gender, age, location, and hair mercury content. For each location, no statistically significant differences (P |
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