NDLI: High blood lead level among garage workers in Bangkok, public concern is necessary

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Author	Suwansaksri, Jamsai Teerasart, Nutchanida Wiwanitkit, Viroj Chaiyaset, Tianchai
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	Lead is an important toxic metal agent found in many industrial processes in the present day. Lead exposure must be of particular concern because of ongoing exposure to thousands of workers in the industrial plants and recent research indicating that asymptomatic lead exposure can result in chronic toxicity manifestations. Therefore, determination and control lead exposure among the risk workers is very necessary. Like other developing countries, lead pollution becomes an important public health problem of Thailand, especially for the big cities as Bangkok but relatively few of these countries have introduced policies and regulations for significantly combating the problem. We set this pilot study to determine the blood lead levels by anodic stripping volammetry (ASV) method as a marker for lead exposure among the occupational exposed and control subjects. Totally 89 subjects, 20 control subjects and 69 garage workers (52 mechanics and 17 dye sprayers), as the representatives of occupational exposed subjects, were included into this preliminary study. The mean blood lead level in the control group was 0.32±0.07 μmol/l. The mean blood lead level in the mechanics group was 0.42±0.13 μmol/l. The mean blood lead level in the dye sprayers was 0.58±0.07 μmol/l. Significant higher blood lead levels among the mechanics and dye sprayer groups were observed (P<0.05). Based on this study, the considerations for prevention of possibly exposure to lead among the high-risk workers as public health policies was recommended.
Starting Page	367
Ending Page	370
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09660844
Journal	BioMetals
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15728773
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2002-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Physical Chemistry Biochemistry
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Metals and Alloys Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Biomaterials Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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