Biomonitoring of Trace Elements in Subjects Living Near a Hazardous Waste Incinerator: Concentrations in Autopsy Tissues

Garcı́a, Francisco; Marquès, Montse; Barbería, Eneko; Torralba, Pilar; Landín, Inés; Laguna, Carlos; Domingo, José L.; Nadal, Martí

doi:10.3390/toxics8010011

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“…Therefore, dietary exposure would be greater than 99% of the total exposure. In agreement to data from the scientific literature [ 42 , 43 ], these estimations clearly indicate that food consumption is the most contributing factor to the total health risks derived from the exposure to PCDD/Fs and PCBs.…”

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Trends of Polychlorinated Compounds in the Surroundings of a Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator in Mataró (Catalonia, Spain): Assessing Health Risks

Nadal

Marquès

Mari

et al. 2020

Toxics

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Since 2008, the environmental levels of polychlorinated compounds near a municipal solid waste incinerator in Mataró (Catalonia, Spain) have been periodically monitored. The present study aimed at updating the data regarding the temporal changes occurred between 2015 and 2017, when air and soil samples were collected again, and the concentrations of the same chemical pollutants (i.e., polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)) were analysed. Furthermore, the health risks associated with their human exposure were also evaluated. The levels of all the contaminants in soil were far below the threshold established by regional and national legislations, also being lower than those observed in previous surveys. A similar trend was also noted for PCDD/Fs in air samples, while airborne PCBs were the only group of chemicals whose levels significantly increased. In any case, the global assessment of the data regarding the different pollutants and matrices indicates that there has not been a general increase in the environmental pollution around the facility. In addition, the environmental exposure to PCDD/Fs and PCBs by the population living nearby is still clearly lower than the dietary intake of these same chemical pollutants.

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Trends of Polychlorinated Compounds in the Surroundings of a Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator in Mataró (Catalonia, Spain): Assessing Health Risks

Nadal

Marquès

Mari

et al. 2020

Toxics

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“…Pb concentration data in human tissues from this study are comparable to the study of Mari et al [ 21 ], who reported that the concentration of Pb in the kidney was 0.18 μ g/g. Recently, García et al [ 28 ] have estimated the concentration of Pb in human tissues (liver, kidney, brain, lung, and bone) with a range of 0.08 to 1.0 μ g/g. In the next step, we attempted to find the correlation between Ca and Cd or Pb concentrations in the TCL.…”

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Calcium Deposit in the Surgically Transacted Transverse Carpal Ligament

Almusawi

Jebril

Al-Auhaimid

et al. 2022

The Scientific World Journal

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A diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in a human often contains more than one test. Calcification of the traverse carpal ligament (TCL) is the common reason why patients seek CTS surgery. However, the determination of calcium (Ca) concentration in the TCL has not been studied. The results of environmental toxicity studies assessing the relationship between Ca and elemental deposition in the TCL are inconsistent. The purpose of this paper was to verify this hypothesis by conducting a chemical analysis of a portion of the released TCL to assess whether there is a relationship between CTS and Ca, measured as the total concentration of Ca, and to measure the precipitation of elements; the most closely related elements associated with Ca are cadmium and lead, which are also toxic. Surgical release of TCL was performed on forty patients. Total concentrations of Ca, Cd, and Pb in the extracted portion of TCL were digested and determined using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and the possibility of using X-ray spectroscopy (XRF) for direct elemental analysis. Ca mineralisation was revealed in some TCLs. In assessing patients’ environmental pollution, it was observed that the Cd and Pb concentrations were significant with a higher Ca concentration, and XRF was useful for direct detection of the elements in samples of the human body. These results indicate that TCL mineralisation by Ca does not characterise CTS, which has important concerns in improving patients’ therapeutic strategies, and Cd and Pb concentrations varied due to different factors.

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“…Pb concentration data in human tissue from this study are comparable to Mari et al [16] , who reported that the concentration of Pb in the kidney was 0.18 μg/g. Recently, García et al [17] have estimated the concentration of Pb in human tissues (liver, kidney, brain, lung, and bone) with a range of 0.08 to 1.0 μg/g. In the next step, we attempted to fi nd the correlation between Ca and Cd or Pb concentrations in the TCL.…”

Section: Figure 1: Icp-ms Analyses Were Performed On Samples From the Tcls Of 40 Patients With Cts (A) The Concentration Of Ca (B) Concenmentioning

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Calcium Deposit in Surgically Transacted Transverse Carpal Ligament

Almusawi¹,

Jebril²,

AL-Auhaimid³

et al. 2021

IJFMT

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A diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in a human often contains more than one test. Calcification of the carpal transverse ligaments (TCL) is one of the common reasons why patients seek CTS surgery. However, determination of calcium (Ca) concentration in TCL has not been studied, and results of environmental toxicity studies assessing the relationship between Ca, and elemental deposition in TCL are inconsistent. The purpose of this paper was to verify this hypothesis by conducting a chemical analysis of a portion of the released TCL to assess whether there is a relationship between CTS and Ca, measured as the total concentration of Ca, and to measure the precipitation of elements, the most closely related elements associated with Ca and toxic are cadmium and lead. Surgical release of TCL was performed on forty patients, and total concentrations of Ca, Cd and Pb in the extracted portion of TCL were digested and determined using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and the possibility of using X-ray spectroscopy (XRF) for direct elemental analysis. Ca mineralization revealed in some TCLs. In assessing patients' environmental pollution, it was observed that the Cd and Pb concentrations were significant with the higher Ca concentration, and XRF was useful for direct detection of the elements in samples of human body. In conclusion, these results indicate that TCL mineralization by Ca does not characterize CTS, which has important concerns in improving patients' therapeutic strategies, and Cd and Pb concentrations varied due to different factors.

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Biomonitoring of Trace Elements in Subjects Living Near a Hazardous Waste Incinerator: Concentrations in Autopsy Tissues

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Trends of Polychlorinated Compounds in the Surroundings of a Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator in Mataró (Catalonia, Spain): Assessing Health Risks

Trends of Polychlorinated Compounds in the Surroundings of a Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator in Mataró (Catalonia, Spain): Assessing Health Risks

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Calcium Deposit in the Surgically Transacted Transverse Carpal Ligament

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Calcium Deposit in Surgically Transacted Transverse Carpal Ligament

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