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| Title |
Contamination index. A novel parameter for metal and pesticide analyses in maternal blood and umbilical cord1
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| Published in |
Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira, July 2016
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| DOI | 10.1590/s0102-865020160070000010 |
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| Authors |
Ilse Sodré Motta, Gustavo Tadeu Volpato, Débora Cristina Damasceno, Yuri Karen Sinzato, Giovana Vesentini, Cibele Vieira Cunha Rudge, Iracema Mattos Paranhos Calderon, Wilma De Grava Kempinas, Jon Øvid Odland, Marilza Vieira Cunha Rudge |
| Abstract |
To evaluate the contamination index of metals and pesticides in pregnant women, and to relate this to perinatal outcomes. Descriptive, retrospective, exploratory study, developed from existing secondary data analyses at Level III maternity center. A total of 40 mothers with their newborns (NB), living in a rural area in Botucatu- Brazil and surrounding region. Blood samples from mothers and newborn were collected to determine the total contamination index for metals and pesticides. The concentrations of each metal and each pesticide were determined in blood samples of mothers and their newborns by Rudge's results. After obtaining these concentrations, the total contamination index in mother and NB was calculated, along with its correlation with clinical parameters of NB. There was no correlation (p> 0.05) between maternal contamination index with NB clinical parameters, and NB contamination index versus NB clinical parameters. The maternal contamination index of metals and pesticides was not related to perinatal outcomes, but it could be used as baseline parameter in future toxicological studies, regarding to long-term toxic characteristics as persistent organic pollutants, its long half-lives, bioacumulative, and expected to impose serious health effects on humans. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 55 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 11 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 11% |
| Professor | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 8 | 15% |
| Unknown | 16 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 16% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 13% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 10 | 18% |
| Unknown | 18 | 33% |