SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018
Hair as a Biomarker of Long Term Mercury Exposure in Brazilian Amazon: A Systematic Review.
Synthesis in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mercury and Prenatal Growth: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Mining Activities Have Exposed Individuals of an Indigenous Tribe in Brazil to Toxic and Potentially Toxic Elements.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Reply to 'Mercury exposure and Minamata disease in Brazil: evidence or alarm?'Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria · 2026Article
- Metals and metalloids concentrations in adults aged 50 and older from Mexico.Research square · 2025Article
- A Brazilian Minamata disease? Neurologists must be aware of mercury exposure and intoxication.Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria · 2025Review
- Munduruku Indigenous children: health situation in an area with high mercury exposure.Revista de saude publica · 2025Article
- Article
- Trends in Mercury Contamination Distribution among Human and Animal Populations in the Amazon Region.Toxics · 2024Review
- Risk Assessment of Mercury-Contaminated Fish Consumption in the Brazilian Amazon: An Ecological Study.Toxics · 2023Article
- Article
- Mercury Exposure in Women of Reproductive Age in Rondônia State, Amazon Region, Brazil.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Brazil's heavy metal pollution harms humans and ecosystems.Science in One Health · 2023Article
- Article
- Mercury Contamination: A Growing Threat to Riverine and Urban Communities in the Brazilian Amazon.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Methylmercury exposure during prenatal and postnatal neurodevelopment promotes oxidative stress associated with motor and cognitive damages in rats: an environmental-experimental toxicology study.Toxicology reports · 2022Article
- Economic Impacts on Human Health Resulting from the Use of Mercury in the Illegal Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon: A Methodological Assessment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Risk factors associated with the severity of COVID-19 in a region of the Brazilian Amazon.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- An Assessment of Health Outcomes and Methylmercury Exposure in Munduruku Indigenous Women of Childbearing Age and Their Children under 2 Years Old.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Mercury Exposure in Munduruku Indigenous Communities from Brazilian Amazon: Methodological Background and an Overview of the Principal Results.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Impacts of the Goldmining and Chronic Methylmercury Exposure on the Good-Living and Mental Health of Munduruku Native Communities in the Amazon Basin.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Many studies have assessed mercury (Hg) exposure in the Amazonian population. This article performs a literature search of the studies that used hair as a biomarker of Hg exposure in the Brazilian Amazonian population. The search covered the period from 1996 to 2016 and included articles which matched the following criteria: (1) articles related to Hg exposure into Brazilian Amazon; (2) articles that used hair as a biomarker of Hg exposure; (3) articles that used analytical tools to measure the Hg content on hair and (4) articles that presented arithmetic mean and/or minimum and maximum values of Hg. 36 studies were selected. The findings show that most of the studies were performed along margins of important rivers, such as Negro, Tapajós and Madeira. All the population presented mean levels of Hg on hair above 6 µg g
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.