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Mercury levels in the hair of pregnant women in a polluted area in Sweden
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Hair levels from the 10th week of pregnancy were similar to the levels at delivery in women with high consumption of freshwater fish but decreased during this period in women who did not eat freshwater fish at all, which could be explained by decreased exposure during pregnancy and measurement in recently formed hair.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 1994-07-04. It has received 30 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Saltwater fish & Freshwater fish.read more
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Longitudinal study of methylmercury and inorganic mercury in blood and urine of pregnant and lactating women, as well as in umbilical cord blood.
TL;DR: Exposure to methylmercury and mercury vapor in pregnant women and their newborns in Stockholm shows the importance of speciation of Hg in blood for evaluation of exposure and health risks.
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Global methylmercury exposure from seafood consumption and risk of developmental neurotoxicity: a systematic review.
Mary C. Sheehan,Thomas A. Burke,Ana Navas-Acien,Patrick N. Breysse,John McGready,Mary A. Fox +5 more
TL;DR: There is a need for policies to reduce Hg exposure among women and infants and for surveillance in high-risk populations, the majority of which live in low-and middle-income countries.
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Methyl mercury and inorganic mercury in Swedish pregnant women and in cord blood: influence of fish consumption.
K Ask Björnberg,Marie Vahter,K Petersson-Grawé,A Glynn,Sven Cnattingius,Per Ola Darnerud,S. Atuma,M. Aune,W Becker,Marika Berglund +9 more
TL;DR: Hair analysis revealed that T-Hg closer to the scalp was lower and more closely correlated with MeHg in cord blood than T- Hg levels in segments corresponding to earlier in pregnancy, and a weak association with fish consumption was found.
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Total and inorganic mercury in breast milk in relation to fish consumption and amalgam in lactating women.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found a significant correlation between levels of any form of mercury in milk and the levels of organic mercury in blood, with milk levels being an average of 27% of the blood levels.
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Maternal fish consumption, mercury levels, and risk of preterm delivery.
TL;DR: This is the first large, community-based study to examine risk of very preterm birth in relation to mercury levels among women with low to moderate exposure and found fish consumption and consumption of canned fish, bought fish, and sport-caught fish were positively associated with mercury levels in hair.
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Impact of Maternal Seafood Diet on Fetal Exposure to Mercury, Selenium, and Lead
TL;DR: Frequent ingestion of whale meat dinners during pregnancy and, to a much lesser degree, frequent consumption of fish, and increased parity or age were associated with high mercury concentrations in cord blood and hair.
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Fetal Methylmercury Poisoning: Relationship Between Concentration in Single Strands of Maternal Hair and Child Effects
David O. Marsh,Thomas W. Clarkson,Christopher Cox,Gary J. Myers,Laman Amin-Zaki,Sa'adoun Al-Tikriti +5 more
TL;DR: Analysis of single hair strands provides a better index of acute or subacute fetal exposure than analysis of bundles of hair; the duration and degree of exposure are more accurately defined.
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Dose-response analysis of infants prenatally exposed to methyl mercury: an application of a single compartment model to single-strand hair analysis
Christopher Cox,Thomas W. Clarkson,David O. Marsh,Laman Amin-Zaki,Sa'adoun Tikriti,Gary G. Myers +5 more
TL;DR: Logit and hockey-stick models as well as nonparametric smoothing are used to describe data on delayed development and central nervous system abnormality in dose-response analysis of data from the 1971 outbreak of methyl mercury poisoning in rural Iraq.