Journal
BIOLOGICAL TRACE ELEMENT RESEARCH
Volume 158, Issue 1, Pages 9-14Publisher
HUMANA PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1007/s12011-014-9905-y
Keywords
Heavy metals; Urine; Mainstream smoke; Restrictive smoking
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21347002, 21277174]
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Heavy metals in tobacco caused wide public concern. To study the impact of heavy metals in smokers, 193 smokers and 58 nonsmokers were surveyed, and their urinary levels of chromium (UCr), lead (UPb), and cadmium (UCd) were assayed. In this study, UCr, UPb, and UCd in smokers (33.41 +/- 14.99, 3.21 +/- 1.34, 0.38 +/- 0.64 mu g/24 h, respectively) and nonsmokers (27.45 +/- 10.49, 3.02 +/- 0.88, 0.20 +/- 0.16 mu g/24 h, respectively) were determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The results showed that the content of UCr, UPb, and UCd in smokers were higher than in nonsmokers. Further analyses of correlations between the levels of urinary chromium and cotinine revealed positive relationship (correlation coefficient r = 0.51).
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