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- Title
Ahead by a Hair.
- Authors
Tibbetts, John
- Abstract
The article discusses research presented elsewhere in the issue regarding the Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Health study, conducted by researchers at Michigan State University. The study is the first large, community-based study among women to examine the risk of preterm birth in relation to mercury concentrations among women. The study is also the largest in the United States to correlate fish consumption and maternal hair mercury. Hair levels of mercury reflect a longer period of contaminant exposure than blood levels, which reflect recent exposure. The researchers took hair samples from close to the scalp to approximate exposure during the pregnancy, then assessed them for total mercury levels. They found that total fish consumption correlated positively with mercury levels in hair.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MERCURY poisoning; HAIR manifestations of general diseases; PREMATURE infants; MERCURY content of fish; MERCURY in the body; WATER pollution; PUBLIC health research; ENVIRONMENTAL health
- Publication
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2007, Vol 115, Issue 1, pA43
- ISSN
0091-6765
- Publication type
Article