[Hair analysis for evaluation of selenium status in Managua population (Nicaragua)].
Mean hair selenium of Managua citizens--743 mg/kg--was higher than of Moscow citizens. Significant differences were detected between groups of citizens with different social sighs: those with low income and perhaps irrational nutrition possess hair selenium value smaller (598 +/- 46 mg/kg) than those with relatively high income (713 +/- 40 mg/kg). Among recent country emigrants hair selenium was round to be the highest--898 +/- 60 mg/kg. This group of people possesses extremely low social status and consumes exclusively corn and beans. Wide interval of selenium concentrations for cereals of Nicaragua: 92 divided by 2580 mg/kg for corn and 18 divided by 814 mg/kg for beans--suggests mosaic selenium distribution in the soils of Nicaragua and consequently high possibility of different human selenium status levels.
Somarriba
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O
Golubkina
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Sokolov
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D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D007887:Fabaceae / Q000737:chemistry; D006197:Hair / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D009527:Nicaragua; D009752:Nutritional Status; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D012643:Selenium / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D014505:Urban Population; D003313:Zea mays / Q000737:chemistry
D012643:Selenium