title: Blood cadmium in healthy subjects and in patients with cardiovascular diseases.
abstract: Blood cadmium concentration was determined in 90 healthy subjects and in 255 patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and/or hypertension. Blood cadmium was higher in 68 healthy inhabitants of the industrial city of Lódź (0.75 +/- 0.41 micrograms %) than in 22 healthy rural inhabitants (0.38 +/- 0.35). All patients with cardiovascular diseases lived in Lódź. Blood cadmium in patients with CHD without risk factors was 0.92 +/- 0.39 micrograms %, in patients with CHD plus hyperlipidaemia 0.93 +/- 0.38, in patients with hypertension 0.98 +/- 0.46 and with CHD plus hypertension 1.01 +/- 0.46 micrograms %. The highest blood cadmium level was observed in smokers with CHD plus hypertension (1.13 +/- 0.42). The patients with renal and/or heart failure had a low blood cadmium level. This was probably due to proteinuria and a loss of cadmothionein in urine. In each tested group, smokers had a higher blood cadmium level than non-smokers.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002104:Cadmium / Q000097:blood*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000097:blood* / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006949:Hyperlipidemias / Q000150:complications; D006973:Hypertension / Q000097:blood* / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011044:Poland; D012424:Rural Population; D012907:Smoking; D014505:Urban Population
chemical_list: D002104:Cadmium