Quantitative assessment of exposure of heavy metals in groundwater and soil on human health in Reasi district, Jammu and Kashmir.

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

abstract：:Thirty-two brownfield sites from the city of Wolverhampton were selected from those with a former industrial use, wasteland or areas adjacent to industrial processes. Samples (<2 mm powdered soil fraction) were analysed, using inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) for 20 elements. Loss on i...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Thums CR,Farago ME,Thornton I

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Castromil is one of the gold mining areas in Portugal that has been abandoned since 1940. This area, which was first mined in Roman times, is located within a Hercynian granite body near the contact with Silurian metasediments. Gold is essentially disseminated along veins in the silicified granite, running NW-SE, rela...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Ferreira da Silva E,Serrano Pinto L,Patinha C,Cardoso Fonseca E

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baicalin (BC)-rare earth metal complexes [BMCs (BC-Ce, BC-La, and BC-Y)] were synthesized by a complexation coordination method. A mouse tumor model with SMMC-7721 cells was used to examine BMCs for their anti-tumor activities in vivo. The results show that the three new BMCs, Na3Ce (C21H16O11)3·10H2O, Na2La (C21H16O1...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Guo M,Gao X,Song H,Gu Y,Christie P,Wu S,Fan X

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality of groundwater in the Yarmouk basin, Jordan has been assessed through the study of hydrogeochemical characteristics and the water chemistry as it is considered the main source for drinking and agriculture activities in the region. The results of the relationship between Ca2+ + Mg2+ versus HCO3- + CO32-, Ca2+ +...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Abboud IA

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many aspects of Al metabolism in chronic renal failure are poorly understood. A longitudinal study of serum Al concentrations in predialysis patients and healthy control subjects revealed very high values during the autumn of 1984 and 1985. Renal Al clearance was low during the autumnal spike in serum Al but increased...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Halse J,Nordal KP,Dahl E,Thomassen Y

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior surveys conducted have found higher proportion of arsenic-contaminated wells in villages along river Indus in Pakistan. This study aims to determine the prevalence of arsenicosis skin lesions among population exposed to higher exposure in taluka Gambat district Khairpur in Sindh. The cross-sectional survey was c...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Fatmi Z,Abbasi IN,Ahmed M,Kazi A,Kayama F

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquifer contamination by petroleum hydrocarbons leads to measurable changes of groundwater hydrochemistry, primarily due to the microbiological activity. This study analyzes this phenomenon at an historical kerosene-contaminated site in Vitanovac (central Serbia). Due to the long-term hydrocarbon contamination and exp...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Marić N,Štrbački J,Mrazovac Kurilić S,Beškoski VP,Nikić Z,Ignjatović S,Malbašić J

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：: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：:Voluminous stockpiles of phosphogypsum (PG) generated during the wet process production of phosphoric acid are stored at many sites around the world and pose problems for their safe storage, disposal, or utilization. A major concern is the elevated concentration of long-lived (226)Ra (half-life = 1,600 years) inherite...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Zielinski RA,Al-Hwaiti MS,Budahn JR,Ranville JF

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mining and municipal wastewaters in the study area are located around Elazig, Turkey. This study investigated the translocation and accumulation of Sr into 9 terrestrial-aquatic plants from the Elazig municipal wastewater, Keban Pb-Zn and Maden Cu wastewaters. Plants and their soil samples were collected from the ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Sasmaz M,Uslu Senel G,Obek E

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Geophagy, or eating soil, is common in various countries including Tanzania. Studies have reported on the levels of different chemicals in consumed soil, some of which can be harmful to the health of individuals practicing geophagy. Dried soil sticks for eating, referred to as pemba, are commercially available in many...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Msoffe CU,Nyanza EC,Thomas DSK,Jahanpour O,Dewey D

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural soils on steeply sloping landscapes in the Appalachian coal fields of Virginia. West Virginia. Kentucky, and Tennessee are often thin, rocky, acidic and infertile, making the topsoiling of surface mined sites impractical in many cases. Topsoil substitutes composed of blasted rock fragments are commonly used in...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Daniels WL,Amos DF

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Apuan Alps (Tuscany, Italy), long-lasting mining activities have favored the mobilization of numerous metals present in sulfosalts originated from low-grade metamorphism mineralization. Such materials, rich in potentially toxic elements such as antimony, arsenic, barium, copper, lead, thallium, tin and zinc, re...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Vittori Antisari L,Bini C,Ferronato C,Gherardi M,Vianello G

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were determined in surface soil samples from Zhejiang Province, east China. Concentrations of total PCBs ranged widely from 7.50 to 263 ng kg(-1) with a mean value of 45.4 ng kg(-1) (dry matter basis). In general, concentrations in soil samples from the southern part of the test area a...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Gao J,Luo Y,Li Q,Zhang H,Wu L,Song J,Qian W,Christie P,Chen S

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To fully understand the environmental quality of sediments in the Yarlung Tsangpo River Basin, surface sediments of the main stream of the Yarlung Tsangpo River and its five major tributaries were studied. In 2016, a total of 201 water samples from the Yarlung Tsangpo River and its tributaries were collected during th...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Li Z,Liu J,Chen H,Li Q,Yu C,Huang X,Guo H

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Causes of Keshan-Beck disease (KBD) are still being probed and monitored in China. Relationships between trace elements from eco-environmental systems and KBD are poorly understood although relationships between environmental Se and human health have received extensive attention. In order to investigate relationships ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Fang W,Wu P,Hu R,Huang Z

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary ingestion of radionuclides by human may lead to many hazardous effects such as cancers. No studies have been conducted to estimate the levels of radioactivity dosage received from Sri Lankan homemade foods. In order to find out the levels of radionuclides in Sri Lankan cooked foods, meal plans (n = 11) that ar...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Jayasinghe C,Molligoda V,Attanayaka T,Waduge V

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contamination and risk by nutrients (NH4+, NO2-, NO3- and PO43-), COD, BOD5, coliform and potentially toxic elements (PTEs) of As, Cd, Ni, Hg, Cu, Pb, Zn and Cr were investigated in urban river (Nhue River), Vietnam during 2010-2017. The extensive results demonstrated that concentrations of these contaminants show...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Nguyen KT,Nguyen HM,Truong CK,Ahmed MB,Huang Y,Zhou JL

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:It is well known and proven that heavy metal contamination of the soils can severely affect the health of the people living in the contaminated areas given the ease with which trace elements can enter the human body. In addition-to agricultural crop depreciation as well as soil erosion, soil pollution can negatively a...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Popa DM,Moldovan M,Prodan D,Aldea C,Lazăr C,Lazea C,Crişan M,Sur LM,Man SC,Borzan C

更新日期：2020-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of phosphorus and nitrogen from non-point source pollution (NPS) in the Taihu Lake region was investigated through case study and surveying in the town of Xueyan, From experimental results coupled with survey and statistics in the studied area, the distribution of nitrogen and phosphorus input to the ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Guo HY,Wang XR,Zhu JG

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenium (Se) is an important micronutrient and essential trace element for both humans and animals, which exist in the environment ubiquitously. Selenium deficiency is an important issue worldwide, with various reported cases of its deficiency. Low selenium contents in some specific terrestrial environments have resu...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Ullah H,Liu G,Yousaf B,Ali MU,Irshad S,Abbas Q,Ahmad R

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potentially toxic elements (PTEs, i.e., Cd, Ni, Cr) and their source apportionment in waters are of major environmental concern. Different approaches can be used to evaluate PTEs sources in environment, but single-way approaches are often limited and can easily fail. PTEs sources apportionment should include the evalu...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Binda G,Pozzi A,Livio F

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shrimp species (Macrobrachium felicinum) collected from estuarine mangrove area of the Imo River is an important route of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The estuarine associated sediment (EAS) composited sample showed higher TPAH, ΣAlkyl, ΣPAHcarc and ΣPAHEPA concentrations (550.84, 172.36, 413.1...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Dosunmu MI,Oyo-Ita IO,Oyo-Ita OE

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a lack of information concerning human health risks due to exposure to mercury contained in shark fins, through dietary intake. Health risk assessment of shark fins, collected from 5 cities in China: Hong Kong (HK), Beijing, Shanghai (SH), Haikou (HN) and Wenzhou (WZ), was conducted, based on total mercury an...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Man YB,Wu SC,Wong MH

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper deals with the evaluation of geo- and bioavailability of trace elements, including heavy metals, present in a typical serpentinite-derived soil of the Pollino Massif (Southern Italy). Precisely, the research was aimed to (1) assess processes and factors controlling the mobility of metals in the soil in orde...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Summa V,Boccia P,Lettino A,Margiotta S,Palma A,Ragone PP,Sinisi R,Zanellato M,Sturchio E

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the successful reduction in roadside NO( x ) levels, no such decrease has been detected in roadside NO(2) concentration in Hong Kong. One underlying cause could be the rising primary NO(2) fraction of the total emission of NO( x ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Tian L,Hossain SR,Lin H,Ho KF,Lee SC,Yu IT

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00