ArticleInternational archives of occupational and environmental health2007
Effects of mercury vapor exposure on neuromotor function in Chinese miners and smelters.
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- Mercury-induced motor and sensory neurotoxicity: systematic review of workers currently exposed to mercury vapor.Critical reviews in toxicology · 2017Pooled it
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- Mercury Exposure in Children of the Wanshan Mercury Mining Area, Guizhou, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Article
- Ergonomics and Beyond: Understanding How Chemical and Heat Exposures and Physical Exertions at Work Affect Functional Ability, Injury, and Long-Term Health.Human factors · 2016Review
- Reconsideration of the WHO NCTB strategy and test selection.Neurotoxicology · 2014Article
- Biomarkers of adverse response to mercury: histopathology versus thioredoxin reductase activity.Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology · 2012Article
- High exposure of Chinese mercury mine workers to elemental mercury vapor and increased methylmercury levels in their hair.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2007Article
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Abstract
objectivesCurrent risk assessment of elemental mercury vapor is based on the tremor toxicity. To clarify the neuromotor effects of occupational exposure to mercury vapor, hand tremor and postural sway were measured in 27 miners and smelters (i.e., exposed workers) and 52 unexposed subjects.
methodsUrine samples were collected and total mercury and creatinine concentrations were determined. Data of the tremor and postural sway were analyzed using the fast Fourier transformation.
resultsThe geometric means of the urinary mercury level (UHg) were 228 (range 22.6-4,577) microg/g creatinine for the exposed workers and 2.6 (1.0-17.4) microg/g creatinine for the unexposed subjects. Total tremor intensity and frequency-specific tremor intensities at 1-6 and 10-14 Hz were significantly larger in the exposed workers than in the unexposed subjects (P < 0.05), but they were not significantly related to the UHg among the exposed workers (P > 0.05). In contrast, there were no significant differences in any postural sway parameters between the above two groups (P > 0.05), but the transversal sway with eyes open was positively related to the UHg among the exposed workers in using multiple regression analysis (P < 0.05).
conclusionsThese findings suggest that postural sway, as well as hand tremor, may be affected by elemental mercury vapor exposure, but the former test seems to be less sensitive to mercury than the latter one.
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