Cadmium in blood and urine after cessation of exposure.
A plant for the synthesis and packaging of cadmium oxide was operated for 32 months (1982-84) in a small chemical factory producing zinc and copper oxide. The cumulative exposure of 6 workers was from 12 to 190 days. Five years after cessation of exposure the blood cadmium levels in the exposed were, on average, 4-10 times higher than those of a reference group and the urinary cadmium levels were 1-6-times higher. In view of the long half-life of cadmium in the human body, the choice of normal reference values requires particular care since brief and sometimes forgotten exposures to cadmium may be a confounding factor to set reference values.
Gambini
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Divisione di Medicina del Lavoro, Ospedale Maggiore, Novara, Italy.
Leurini
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D002104:Cadmium / Q000097:blood* / Q000652:urine; D019187:Cadmium Compounds; D006207:Half-Life; D006801:Humans; D008657:Metabolic Clearance Rate; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D010087:Oxides; D012016:Reference Values; D013997:Time Factors; D001613:beta 2-Microglobulin / Q000378:metabolism / Q000652:urine
D019187:Cadmium Compounds; D010087:Oxides; D001613:beta 2-Microglobulin; D002104:Cadmium; C029663:cadmium oxide