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KMID : 0377519830080010071
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Chung-Ang Journal of Medicine
1983 Volume.8 No. 1 p.71 ~ p.78
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Interrelationships of Mercury Contents Among Blood, Urine and Hair
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Song Young-Su
Chung Kyou-Chull
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Abstract
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Sixty-five healthy male adults living in Seoul who had no obvious experience with exposure to mercury were subjected to this study. Interrelationships of mercury concentrations among blood, urine and hair that were analyzed quantitatively by dithizone colorimetric method were reviewed with Spearman’s rank correlation analysis, since the mercury contents in blood, urine and hair specimens were found not normally distributed. 1. Mercury concentrations in blood showed no correlation with those in hair and in urine. Although mercury contents in blood were inversely correlated with urinary mercury excretion with the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient of -0.2460(P<0.05) only when the values were adjusted to creatinine excretion, it was considered to be a spurious correlation due to type 1 error. 2. Mercury contents in hair also showed no correlation with those in urine. 3. It can be quite definitely stated that in healthy subjects who had no obvious exposure to mercury, there exists no interrelationship among blood, urine and hair levels of mercury both in any individual case and on a group basis.
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