Soil metal concentrations and toxicity: Associations with distances to industrial facilities and implications for human health

Urban and rural areas may have different levels of environmental contamination and different potential sources of exposure. Many metals, i.e., arsenic (As), lead (Pb), and mercury (Hg), have well-documented negative neurological effects, and the developing fetus and young children are particularly a...

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Published in:	The Science of the total environment Vol. 407; no. 7; pp. 2216 - 2223
Main Authors:	Aelion, C. Marjorie, Davis, Harley T., McDermott, Suzanne, Lawson, Andrew B.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Kidlington Elsevier B.V 15-03-2009 [Amsterdam; New York]: Elsevier Science Elsevier
Subjects:	Adult and adolescent clinical studies Arsenic Beryllium bronzes Biological and medical sciences Chemical and industrial products toxicology. Toxic occupational diseases Child Children Chromium Cities Copper Correlation Correlation analysis Databases, Factual Delay Developmental Disabilities - epidemiology Environmental Monitoring Epidemiological Monitoring Health Humans Industrial Waste Intellectual deficiency Intellectual Disability - epidemiology Lead (metal) Manganese Medical sciences Mental retardation anddevelopmental delay Mercury Metals - analysis Metals - toxicity Metals and various inorganic compounds Nickel Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Risk Rural areas Rural surface soils Soil (material) Soil contamination Soil Pollutants - analysis Soil Pollutants - toxicity Toxicity Toxicology TRI facilities Urban areas Urban surface soils Arsenic Chromium Mental retardation anddevelopmental delay Urban surface soils Rural surface soils Soil contamination TRI facilities Human Proximity Toxicity Developmental disorder Urban area Soil pollution Mental retardation Growth retardation Heavy metal Residential zone Mental retardation and developmental delay Health and environment Intellectual deficiency Rural area Industrial area Public health Chemical contamination
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