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The Legnica-Głogow Copper Mining District has been the site of metal mining for more than 50 years. Intensive environmental actions have, more recently, been aimed at reducing emissions of harmful substances in the region. We compared the blood lead concentrations of children resident in the copper smelting district in southwestern Poland in 1995 and 2007. The sample included 1,405 children, 7-15...
Presenting detailed picture of psychical problems in healthy controls and patients enabled to see indirect important effect of polyetiological determinants of metabolism of minerals in 388 subjects included in the study, whose blood serum and hair were tested for the content of magnesium, potassium, sodium, calcium, phosphorus, chlorine, zinc, copper, iron, lithium and lead. The most important factor...
Cadmium, copper and zinc concentrations in the blood and hair of 51 women after delivery of children with locomotor system malformations (Group I) and, as a control, 46 women who gave birth to healthy children (Group II) were different but none of the values were statistically significant. However, lead concentrations in the blood and the hair of women from the Group I (median: 109.63 μg/L and 1.31...
The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between lead, cadmium, zinc, and copper contents in the children's head hair and the level of environmental exposure in the subject's place of residence. The studied population was a group of 93 children (62 boys and 31 girls), aged 5-16, living in contaminated regions of the Copper Basin Legnica ("Exposed Group"). The control ("Reference...
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