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Changing Metal Cycles and Human Health - Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Changing Metal Cycles and Human Health, Berlin 1983, March 20-25 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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Changing Metal Cycles and Human Health - Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Changing Metal Cycles and Human Health, Berlin 1983, March 20-25 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
Series: Life Sciences Research Report, 28
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of metal interactions with subcellular biochemical systems usually
either are metabolites of the system affected (porphyrinurias) or
represent some specific function of a cellular system being
impaired (proteinurias). One typically finds a continuum of
symptoms, from the subtle or so-called "no effect" bio chemical and
physiological indicators of exposure to severe clinical disease and
death. This continuum is the basis of much of the controversy since
many health officials follow the traditional practice of applying
the "threshold health-effect" concept in evaluating the problems of
environmental exposure to metals. The past decade or so, however,
has seen a vast increase in our understanding of the effects of
elevated concentrations of toxic metals in local populations and
ecosystems. At the same time, there is a growing awareness that the
effects of the metals which occur naturally in the environment must
be distinguished from those imposed by the pollutant fraction. This
point was amply document ed in a recent study of cadmium intake and
cadmium in a number of human tissues in Sweden, Japan, and the
United States, which showed fairly conclu sively that the
background exposure in Japan was about threefold higher than in the
other two countries (2). One immediate implication is that any
health ef fect studies of cadmium in Japan using control groups
within that country are liable to underestimate the difference
between the exposed and the control groups simply because of the
the high "background" intake."
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