NDLI: Ecological and human health risk aspects of burning arsenic-rich coal

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Author	Bencko, Vladimír Rameš, Jiří Fabiává, Eleora Pešek, Jiří Jakubis, Marián
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	The subject of the study was the ecological and human health consequences of environmental pollution from emissions arising from burning local coal with an arsenic content ranging from 900 to 1,500 g/tonne of dry substance. The first indication of environmental pollution by arsenic-containing emissions was the mass extinction of honeybee colonies. The neurotoxic and carcinogenic aspects of arsenic exposure were followed. On using a group diagnostics approach, significant hearing losses were detected in exposed children in both air and bone conduction audiometry at high frequency range (4,000 and 8,000 Hz, respectively). Exposure assessment of the local population of the Prievidza district, Central Slovakia, was based on biological monitoring. The criterion of higher exposure was arsenic content in hair exceeding concentrations of 3 μg/g of hair. In a 7.5-km radius of the exposed region, live about two-tenths of the district population who were considered as “exposed” and rest of the district served as the “reference” population. The subject of our analysis was a database of 1,503 non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) cases (756 in men and 747 in women) collected from 1977 to 1996 in the Prievidza district, Central Slovakia (population ~125,000). The age standardized incidence of NMSC (each confirmed by histological examination) in non-occupational settings ranged from 45.9 to 93.9 in men and from 34.6 to 81.4 in women. Analysis of our data demonstrates a positive correlation between human cumulative exposure to arsenic and incidence of NMSC.
Starting Page	239
Ending Page	243
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISSN	02694042
Journal	Environmental Geochemistry and Health
Volume Number	31
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15732983
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-11-25
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Arsenic toxicity Biological monitoring Cancer epidemiology Non-melanoma skin cancer incidence Risk assessment Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution Public Health/Gesundheitswesen Geochemistry Environment
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Environmental Chemistry Medicine Geochemistry and Petrology Environmental Engineering Water Science and Technology

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