Ecological and human health risk aspects of burning arsenic-rich coal
Jazyk angličtina Země Nizozemsko Médium print-electronic
Typ dokumentu časopisecké články, práce podpořená grantem
- MeSH
- arsen analýza toxicita MeSH
- časové faktory MeSH
- databáze faktografické MeSH
- elektrárny MeSH
- epidemiologické monitorování MeSH
- hodnocení rizik MeSH
- incidence MeSH
- látky znečišťující vzduch analýza otrava MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- monitorování životního prostředí metody MeSH
- nádory kůže chemicky indukované epidemiologie MeSH
- otrava arsenem epidemiologie patofyziologie MeSH
- sexuální faktory MeSH
- uhlí MeSH
- věkové rozložení MeSH
- vlasy, chlupy chemie MeSH
- vystavení vlivu životního prostředí škodlivé účinky MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Slovenská republika epidemiologie MeSH
- Názvy látek
- arsen MeSH
- látky znečišťující vzduch MeSH
- uhlí MeSH
The subject of the study was the ecological and human health consequences of environmental pollution from emissions arising from burning local coal with an arsenic content ranging from 900 to 1,500 g/tonne of dry substance. The first indication of environmental pollution by arsenic-containing emissions was the mass extinction of honeybee colonies. The neurotoxic and carcinogenic aspects of arsenic exposure were followed. On using a group diagnostics approach, significant hearing losses were detected in exposed children in both air and bone conduction audiometry at high frequency range (4,000 and 8,000 Hz, respectively). Exposure assessment of the local population of the Prievidza district, Central Slovakia, was based on biological monitoring. The criterion of higher exposure was arsenic content in hair exceeding concentrations of 3 microg/g of hair. In a 7.5-km radius of the exposed region, live about two-tenths of the district population who were considered as "exposed" and rest of the district served as the "reference" population. The subject of our analysis was a database of 1,503 non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) cases (756 in men and 747 in women) collected from 1977 to 1996 in the Prievidza district, Central Slovakia (population approximately 125,000). The age standardized incidence of NMSC (each confirmed by histological examination) in non-occupational settings ranged from 45.9 to 93.9 in men and from 34.6 to 81.4 in women. Analysis of our data demonstrates a positive correlation between human cumulative exposure to arsenic and incidence of NMSC.
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