Mercury exposures and symptoms in smelting workers of artisanal mercury mines in Wuchuan, Guizhou, China

Environmental Research

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 108-114

  Li, Ping ^a,b   Feng, Xinbin ^a   Qiu, Guangle ^a   Li, Zhonggen ^a   Fu, Xuewu ^a,b   Sakamoto, Minishi ^c   Liu, Xiaojie ^c   Wang, Dingyong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artisanal mercury mines; Hair; Mercury exposures; Smelting workers; Urine

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; CREATININE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

ARTISANAL MINING; HAIR; HEALTH SURVEY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SMELTING; SYMPTOM; URINE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHINA; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MERCURIALISM; MINER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SMOKING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUIZHOU; WUCHUAN;

EID: 41549086659     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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