Skeletal fluorosis from brewed tea

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2318-2324

  Izuora, Kenneth ^a   Twombly, Jennifer G ^a   Whitford, Gary M ^b   Demertzis, Jennifer ^c   Pacifici, Roberto ^a   Whyte, Michael P ^c,d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERGOCALCIFEROL; FLUORIDE ION; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; BLOOD LEVEL; BONE DENSITY; BONE PAIN; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FINGER NAIL; FLUOROSIS; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; OSTEOFLUOROSIS; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEA; TOE; URINE LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

FEMALE; FLUORIDES; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; TEA;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS;

EID: 79961228241     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2010-2891     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (39)

1. Krishnamachari KA 1986 Skeletal fluorosis in humans: a review of recent progress in the understanding of the disease. Prog Food Nutr Sci 10:279-314 (Pubitemid 17037576)
2. Subcommittee on Health Effects of Ingested Fluoride, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council 1993 Health effects of ingested fluoride. Washington, DC: National Academies Press
3. Cao J, Zhao Y, Liu J, Xirao R, Danzeng S, Daji D, Yan Y 2003 Brick tea fluoride as a main source of adult fluorosis. Food Chem Toxicol 41:535-542 (Pubitemid 36259790)
4. Lung SC, Hsiao PK, Chiang KM 2003 Fluoride concentrations in three types of commercially packed tea drinks in Taiwan. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 13:66-73
5. Chan JT, Koh SH 1996 Fluoride content in caffeinated, decaffeinated and herbal teas. Caries Res 30:88-92 (Pubitemid 126460827)
6. Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture Food availability (per capita) data system. Available at: http://www.ers.usda.gov/ data/foodconsumption/spreadsheets/beverage.xls. Accessed: May 5, 2011
7. Whyte MP, Essmyer K, Gannon FH, Reinus WR 2005 Skeletal fluorosis and instant tea. Am J Med 118:78-82 (Pubitemid 40082462)
8. Whyte MP, Totty WG, Lim VT, Whitford GM 2008 Skeletal fluorosis from instant tea. J Bone Miner Res 23:759-769 (Pubitemid 351575030)
9. Sowers M, Whitford GM, Clark MK, Jannausch ML 2005 Elevated serum fluoride concentrations in women are not related to fractures and bone mineral density. J Nutr 135:2247-2252 (Pubitemid 41298395)
10. Whitford GM 1996 Renal handling of fluoride. In: Myers HM, ed. The metabolism and toxicity of fluoride. Basel, Switzerland: S Karger AG; 46-48
11. Whitford GM 2005 Monitoring fluoride exposure with fingernail clippings. Schweiz Monatsschr Zahnmed 115:685-689
12. Taves DR 1968 Determination of submicromolar concentrations of fluoride in biological samples. Talanta 15:1015-1023
13. Ruan J, Wong MH 2001 Accumulation of fluoride and aluminum related to different varieties of tea plant. Environ Geochem Health 23:53-63 (Pubitemid 32386264)
14. Matsushima F, Meshitsuka S, Nose T 1993 Contents of aluminum and manganese in tea leaves and tea infusions. Nippon Eiseigaku Zasshi 48:864-872 (Pubitemid 23351833)
15. Goldfrank LR, Flomenbaum NE, Lewin NA, Weisman RS, Howland MA, Hoffman RS 1998 Goldfrank's toxicologic emergencies. 6th ed. Stamford, CT: Appleton & Lange; 1410-1414
16. Friedman PA 2005 Agents affecting mineral ion homeostasis and bone turnover. In: Shanahan JF, Foltin J, Edmonson K, Brown RY, eds. Goodman and Gilman's the pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 11th ed. Chap 61. New York: McGraw-Hill; 1647-1678
17. Riggs BL, Hodgson SF, O'Fallon WM, Chao EY, Wahner HW, Muhs JM, Cedel SL, Melton 3rd LJ 1990 Effect of fluoride treatment on the fracture rate in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. N Engl J Med 322:802-809 (Pubitemid 20094143)
18. Teotia SP, Teotia M 1973 Secondary hyperparathyroidism in patients with endemic skeletal fluorosis. Br Med J 1:637-640
19. Koroglu BK, Ersoy IH, Koroglu M, Balkarli A, Ersoy S, Varol S, Tamer MN 14 September 2010 Serum parathyroid hormone levels in chronic endemic fluorosis. Biol Trace Elem Res 10.1007/s12011-010-8847-2
20. Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services 1991 Review of fluoride: benefits and risks. Report of the ad hoc subcommittee on fluoride of the committee to coordinate environmental health and related programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
21. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2006 Drinking water contaminants. Available at: http://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants/index.cfm#List. Accessed November 7, 2010
22. National Research Council Subcommittee on Health Effects of Ingested Fluoride 1993 Health effects of ingested fluoride. Washington, DC: National Academies Press
23. 2003 Bottled water (codified at 21CFR§165.110). Washington, DC: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services
24. United Nations Children's Fund 2008 UNICEF handbook on water quality. New York: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
25. Fawell J, Bailey K, Chilton J, Dahi E, Fewtrell L, Magara Y 2006 Fluoride in drinking-water. Geneva: World Health Organization
26. World Health Organization 2004 Fluoride in drinking-water: background document for development of WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality. Geneva: World Health Organization
27. Malinowska E, Inkielewicz I, Czarnowski W, Szefer P 2008 Assessment of fluoride concentration and daily intake by human from tea and herbal infusions. Food Chem Toxicol 46:1055-1061
28. Smid JR, Kruger BJ 1985 The fluoride content of some teas available in Australia. Aust Dent J 30:25-28
29. Full CA, Parkins FM 1975 Effect of cooking vessel composition on fluoride. J Dent Res 54:192
30. Shannon IL 1977 Effect of aluminum and Teflon cooking vessels on fluoride content of boiling water. J Mo Dent Assoc 57:26-28
31. Whyte MP 2006 Fluoride levels in bottled teas. Am J Med 119:189-190
32. Hallanger Johnson JE, Kearns AE, Doran PM, Khoo TK, Wermers RA 2007 Fluoride-related bone disease associated with habitual tea consumption. Mayo Clin Proc 82:719-724 (Pubitemid 46878095)
33. Hafsa C, Zaghouani H, Kriaa S, Salem R, Omezzine SJ, Golli M,Touzi M, Berguaoui N, Gannouni A 2008 Spinal cord compression revealing fluorosis. Joint Bone Spine 75:91-93
34. Kurland ES, Schulman RC, Zerwekh JE, Reinus WR, Dempster DW, Whyte MP 2007 Recovery from skeletal fluorosis (an enigmatic, American case). J Bone Miner Res 22:163-170 (Pubitemid 46032610)
35. Whyte MP 2005 Misinterpretation of osteodensitometry with high bone density (BMD ≥ + 2.5 is not "normal"). J Clin Densitom 8:1-6 (Pubitemid 40392920)
36. Feskanich D, Owusu W, Hunter DJ, Willett W, Ascherio A, Spiegelman D, Morris S, Spate VL, Colditz G 1998 Use of toe-nail fluoride levels as an indicator for the risk of hip and fore-arm fractures in women. Epidemiology 9:412-416 (Pubitemid 28298363)
37. Corrêa Rodrigues MH, de Magalhães Bastos JR, Rabelo Buzalaf MA 2004 Fingernails and toenails as biomarkers of sub-chronic exposure to fluoride from dentifrice in 2-to-3-year-old children. Caries Res 38:109-114
38. Halder B, Bhattacharya U, Mukhopadhyay S, Giri AK 2008 Molecular mechanism of black tea polyphenols induced apoptosis in human skin cancer cells: involvement of Bax translocation and mitochondria mediated death cascade. Carcinogenesis 29:129-138 (Pubitemid 351201751)
39. Manikandan R, Sundaram R, Thiagarajan R, Sivakumar MR, Meiyalagan V, Arumugam M 2009 Effect of black tea on histological and immunohistochemical changes in pancreatic tissues of normal and streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice (Mus musculus). Microsc Res Tech 72:723-726