Health Determinants of Methylmercury Exposure in Coastal

Overview

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• Results: The median hair MeHg level was 7.15 μg/g, exceeding international guidelines. Higher levels were
• Based on a hypothesized correlation between scalp As shown in Table 2, higher median methyl mercury
• 95% confidence and 80% statistical power. caught from waters near industries (3.8 μg/g), and
• Ethical approval was granted by the Ethical Review Table 2: Median methyl mercury levels in scalp hair
• recruited with a mean age of 25 years. The
• primary education or below (76%). The median total
• median concentration of methylmercury in scalp methyl mercury (MeHg) in the scalp hair of 100
• Table 3: Correlation Matrix of Demographic and Health contribute to elevated MeHg levels. Notably,

Methods (brief)

• Detailed dietary histories were obtained through interviews. Scalp hair samples were analyzed for total mercury
• using Cold Vapor Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry.
• States(11). Hair samples have been widely used as
• Therefore, analyzing hair samples can provide a
• sample size of approximately 100 subjects to ensure whitening creams/soaps (6.5 μg/g), eating fish
• was obtained before interviews and hair sample population
• method involving cutting a sample of hair close to Marital status
• samples were sent to the laboratory where they - ≤ primary 58 (76)
• external contamination. The samples were then Average weekly fish
• temperatures in a microwave digestion system. - yes 35 (46)
• Digested samples were then analyzed for total and - no 41 (54)
• samples (median) µg/g)

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• Fish — marine, predatory (tuna, swordfish, shark, king mackerel)
• Fish — marine, non-predatory (sardines, anchovies, salmon, cod)
• Mercury
• Mercury

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