ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2019
Comparison of Visual Functions of Two Amazonian Populations: Possible Consequences of Different Mercury Exposure.
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- Mercury Exposure and Its Health Effects in Workers in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) Sector-A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Total mercury exposure through canned tuna in water sold in Quito, Ecuador.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Uncontrolled Illegal Mining and Garimpo in the Brazilian Amazon.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Characterizing visual field loss from past mercury exposure in an Indigenous riverine community (Grassy Narrows First Nation, Canada): a cluster-based approach.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2024Article
- Trends in Mercury Contamination Distribution among Human and Animal Populations in the Amazon Region.Toxics · 2024Review
- Visual Characteristics of Adults with Long-Standing History of Dietary Exposure to Mercury in Grassy Narrows First Nation, Canada.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Mercury intoxication and ophthalmic involvement: An update review.Frontiers in toxicology · 2023Review
- Trace element accumulation in different edible fish species from the Bolivian Amazon and the risk for human consumption.Heliyon · 2022Article
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- Risk of exposure to Hg and pesticides residues in a traditional fishing community in the Amazon: a probabilistic approach based on dietary pattern.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- Mercury Contamination: A Growing Threat to Riverine and Urban Communities in the Brazilian Amazon.International journal of environmental research and public health · 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
- Neurological Impacts of Chronic Methylmercury Exposure in Munduruku Indigenous Adults: Somatosensory, Motor, and Cognitive Abnormalities.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
- Genetic Polymorphism of Delta Aminolevulinic Acid Dehydratase (International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
The present study investigated the visual perimetry and color vision of two Amazonian populations differently exposed to mercury. Ten riverines environmentally exposed to mercury by fish eating and 34 gold-miners occupationally exposed to mercury vapor. The visual perimetry was estimated using the Förster perimeter and the color vision was evaluated using a computerized version of Farnsworth-Munsell test. Riverine and gold-miners' hair mercury concentrations were quantified. Mercury hair concentration of the riverines was significantly higher than that from gold-miners. Riverines had lower perimetric area than the gold-miners. The errors in the hue ordering test of both Amazonian populations were larger than the controls (non-exposed subjects), but there was no difference between themselves. Riverines had significant multiple association between the visual function and hair mercury concentration, while the gold-miners has no significant association with the exposure. We concluded that the different ways of mercury exposure led to similar visual outcomes, with greater impairment in riverines (organic mercury exposed subjects).
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