Mineralogical, compositional and isotope characterization of human kidney stones (urolithiasis) in a Sri Lankan population.

abstract：:Arsenic-containing water poses a serious threat to human health. In this study, two types of Fe-modified rice straw biochars [(Fe-impregnated biochar (FeIm char) and pre-modified rice straw biochar (PMRS char)] were prepared, in which three ratios [1, 5, and 10% (w/w)] of Fe modification were evaluated, resulting in s...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Zhang Y,Fan J,Fu M,Ok YS,Hou Y,Cai C

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary calculi have been recognized as one of the most painful medical disorders. Tenable knowledge of the phase composition of the stones is very important to elucidate an underlying etiology of the stone disease. We report here the results of quantitative X-ray diffraction phase analysis performed on 278 kidney sto...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Uvarov V,Popov I,Shapur N,Abdin T,Gofrit ON,Pode D,Duvdevani M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary field studies were carried out at Dolfrwynog Bog in July 2000. Replicate samples of water, Armeria maritima plants and the soils adhering to its roots were collected and analysed for copper. Concentrations of up to 6486 mg kg-1 of copper in the soils were recorded. Accumulation of copper by the plant as ex...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Brewin LE,Mehra A,Lynch PT,Farago ME

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A greenhouse pot experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of the colonization of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (AMF) Glomus mosseae on the growth and metal uptake of three leguminous plants (Sesbania rostrata, Sesbania cannabina, Medicago sativa) grown in multi-metal contaminated soil. AMF colonization incr...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Lin AJ,Zhang XH,Wong MH,Ye ZH,Lou LQ,Wang YS,Zhu YG

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of organophosphorus pesticides (OPPs) increased gradually because of the rise in global food demand that triggered the agriculture sector to increase the production, leading to OPP residues in the surface water. This study elucidated the presence of OPPs and estimated its ecological risk in the riverin...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Zainuddin AH,Wee SY,Aris AZ

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadmium (Cd) accumulation and pollution in arable soils are particularly serious in the lower reaches of the Minjiang River in southwest of China. In this study, the remediation efficiency of Cd contamination in arable soils, the distribution pattern of Cd concentration in crops, and the food safety to humans of three...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Liu Y,Liu K,Li Y,Yang W,Wu F,Zhu P,Zhang J,Chen L,Gao S,Zhang L

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As one of the important elements of controlling the redox system within the hyporheic and hypolentic zone, sulfur is involved in a series of complex biogeochemical processes such as carbon cycle, water acidification, formation of iron and manganese minerals, redox processes of trace metal elements and a series of impo...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Su X,Cui G,Wang H,Dai Z,Woo NC,Yuan W

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing interest in links between poor health and socio-environmental inequalities (e.g. inferior housing, crime and industrial emissions) under the environmental justice agenda. The current project assessed associations between soil metal content, air pollution (NO2/PM10) and deprivation and health (respirat...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Morrison S,Fordyce FM,Scott EM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sediments of the Tamagawa River in central Japan were studied to explain the spatial variation, to identify the sources of heavy metals, and to evaluate the anthropogenic influence on these pollutants in the river. Sediment samples were collected from 20 sites along the river (five upstream, four midstream, and 11 dow...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Shikazono N,Tatewaki K,Mohiuddin KM,Nakano T,Zakir HM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Operation performance and bacterial community structure of sulfur-based autotrophic denitrification (SAD) based on different sulfur sources served as electron donor was first parallelly compared among three sequencing batch reactors. Sulfur and sodium thiosulfate systems achieved similar operation performance and were...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Fu C,Li J,Lv X,Song W,Zhang X

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historical mining in Alaska has created a legacy of approximately 6,830 abandoned mine sites which include adits, tailing piles and contaminated land that continue to impact surface and groundwater quality through run-off and leaching of potentially toxic metals, especially arsenic (As). One such site is the Lucky Sho...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Torrance K,Keenan H,Munk L,Hagedorn B

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated variations in heavy metal contamination of stream waters and groundwaters affected by an abandoned lead-zinc mine, where a rockfill dam for water storage will be built 11 km downstream. For these purposes, a total of 10 rounds of stream and groundwater samplings and subsequent chemical analyses we...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Lee JY,Choi JC,Lee KK

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brick tea contains high concentration of fluoride. The aim of the present work was to explore whether and how the brick tea is a risk factor for dental caries and dental fluorosis among Tibetan children in Ganzi. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 368 12-year-old Tibetan children in Ganzi. Dental caries was me...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Zhang R,Cheng L,Zhang T,Xu T,Li M,Yin W,Jiang Q,Yang Y,Hu T

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoride contamination in the groundwater has got great attention in last few decades due to their toxicity, persistent capacity and accumulation in human bodies. There are several sources of fluoride in the environment and different pathways to enter in the drinking water resources, which is responsible for potential...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Mukherjee I,Singh UK

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-precision lead isotope ratios and lead concentrations have been compared statistically and graphically in women of child-bearing age (n = 77) from two smelter communities and one general urban community to evaluate the relative contributions to blood lead of tissue lead stores and lead from the contemporaneous en...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Gulson BL,Pisaniello D,McMichael AJ,Mizon KJ,Korsch MJ,Luke C,Ashbolt R,Pederson DG,Vimpani G,Mahaffey KR

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) on Guam previously attained incidence rates 50 to 100 times that of the continental United States and Europe and accounted for one in five deaths among Chamorros over age 25. A second neurological disorder in high incidence, parkinsonism-dementia (PD), and the early appearance in th...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Garruto RM,Yanagihara R,Gajdusek DC

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work reports on the widespread occurrence of tar balls on a pebble beach of Sueste Bay on Fernando de Noronha Island, a Brazilian national marine park and a preserve in the South Equatorial Atlantic. Environmental regulations preclude regular visitors to the Sueste Bay beach, and the bay is a pristine area withou...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Baptista Neto JA,da Costa Campos TF,de Andrade CD,Sichel SE,da Fonseca EM,Motoki A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In anoxic sediments, as those found in estuaries, the mobility of metals can be controlled by the formation of stable sulfide complexes. The potential bioavailability of a metal can then be predicted on the basis of the acid volatile sulfide (AVS) and simultaneously extracted metals (SEM) criterion. Distributions of A...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Nizoli EC,Luiz-Silva W

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geogenic arsenic (As) contamination of groundwater is a major ecological and human health problem in southwestern and northeastern coastal areas of Taiwan. Here, we present a probabilistic framework for assessing the human health risks from consuming raw and cooked fish that were cultured in groundwater As-contaminate...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Ling MP,Wu CH,Chen SC,Chen WY,Chio CP,Cheng YH,Liao CM

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a general model for the biokinetics of Rn-222 in the adult human body following ingestion of the radon in water. Such a model is needed for the calculation of doses which would result from the ingestion of radon, a natural component of drinking water supplies. Information on the movement and concen...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Crawford-Brown DJ

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An attempt is made to synthesize the epidemiological literature and identify salient factors from the multitude of potential antecedents of gastric cancer, factors which to a greater or lesser degree create nonrandom variations in the distribution of the disease. Implicit in this approach is the notion that observatio...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Matthews SA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six ponds of age 3 were selected 45 km north from Suzhou in the Tailake region, and research conducted on nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in P. vannanmei (Penaeus vannanme) ponds and M. nipponense (Macrobrachium nipponense) hatchery ponds under normal management. Two treatments each had three replications. The results...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Xia LZ,Yang LZ,Yan MC

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated the concentrations, spatial distribution, seasonal variations, potential sources, and risk assessment of organic/inorganic pollutants in ambient air of Tehran city. Totally, 180 air samples were taken from 9 sampling stations from March 2018 to March 2019 and were analyzed to determine the ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Kermani M,Asadgol Z,Gholami M,Jafari AJ,Shahsavani A,Goodarzi B,Arfaeinia H

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An argument is presented in which areas of natural arsenic contamination of modern groundwaters throughout Asia have a common origin. Arsenic originally accumulated in oceanic ferro-manganoan sediments of the eastern Palaeo-Tethys. This was further concentrated through oceanic crustal extinction in what later became t...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Stanger G

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major causes of toxicity in slaughterhouse wastewater are identified by analyzing the relationship between representative pollutants and the acute toxicity of Daphnia magna. Experimental results demonstrate that organic matters are strongly associated with the acute toxicity. Among many organic pollutants, protein...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Kim HJ,Lee D,Won CH,Kim HW

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil contamination by heavy metals and metalloids is a serious problem which needs to be addressed. There are several methods for removal of contaminants, but they are costly, while the method of phytoremediation is eco-friendly and cost-effective. Pteridophytes have been found to remediate heavy metal-contaminated so...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Praveen A,Pandey VC

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jinci Spring is one of the most famous karst spring in Northern China and is the main drinking and irrigation water source of Taiyuan city, Shanxi Province. It has special significance in terms of humanities and water resources. Because of the continuous over-exploitation of groundwater, the water level of groundwater...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Lv C,Ling M,Wu Z,Gu P,Guo X,Di D

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific objectives of this study were: (1) to establish background content levels of potentially harmful elements in topsoil of Quintero and Puchuncavi districts; (2) to assess the degree of topsoil pollution and identify the local sources of pollution; and (3) to assess the health risk of metal exposure to popul...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Tume P,Barrueto K,Olguin M,Torres J,Cifuentes J,Ferraro FX,Roca N,Bech J,Cornejo O

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ismailia Canal is one of the most important tributaries of the River Nile in Egypt. It is threatened by extinction from several sources of pollution, in addition to the intersection and nearness of the canal path with the Bilbayes drain and the effluent from the two largest conventional wastewater treatment plants...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： El-Rawy M,Fathi H,Abdalla F

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary investigation reveals that fluorosis is reported due to the continuous intake of fluoride-rich groundwater in Vattamalikarai River basin, Tamil Nadu, India. A detailed study was attempted for evaluating the health risks associated with the intake of fluoride-rich groundwater supplied to the rural community...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Arya S,Subramani T,Vennila G,Karunanidhi D

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00