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ArticleJournal of environmental health science & engineering2025

Biomonitoring of metals in the blood and urine of waste recyclers from exposure to airborne fine particulate matter (PM

Safiye Ghobakhloo, Amir Hossein Khoshakhlagh, Gholam Reza Mostafaii, Lars Carlsen

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Article in Journal of environmental health science & engineering, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Safiye GhobakhlooDepartment of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran.
Amir Hossein Khoshakhlagh *Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Health, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran.
Gholam Reza MostafaiiDepartment of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran.
Lars CarlsenAwareness Center, Roskilde, Denmark.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This is the first systematic investigation of occupational exposure to toxic metals among waste recyclers in municipal waste recycling facilities. Concentrations of heavy metals (HMs) in the blood and urine of exposed recyclers in different jobs were compared to control groups (administrative department), identifying possible work-related and socio-demographic exposure factors. The potential relationship between HMs levels in PM Graphical abstract: Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40201-024-00924-y.

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BiomonitoringHeavy metalsHuman healthOccupational exposurePM2.5Waste recycling

Identifiers

PMID39583880
PMCPMC11582262

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