Uranium exposure and health risk implications: A preliminary study among the residents living around uranium mining sites in the Southern Province of Zambia
| Autor: | Titus Haakonde, John Yabe, Kennedy Choongo, Gershom Chongwe, Gilbert Nchima |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Environmental Advances, Vol 5, Iss , Pp 100098- (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2666-7657 63418584 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.envadv.2021.100098 |
| Popis: | For the first time, exposure to uranium (U) among the residents living around U-mining sites in Siavonga, Zambia, was assessed by determining the concentrations of U in their urine using the Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry. We further investigated the correlations for urinary U concentrations from the current study with the U concentrations in drinking water and cow milk from our previous studies conducted in the same study sites. The urinary U concentration for the residents from communities situated ≤4km from the U-mining sites, i.e. U-mining area, had a median concentration of 60.67 µg/L. Comparably, residents from communities located about ≥67km from the U-mining sites, i.e. non-mining area, had urinary U concentrations with a median of 0.72 µg/L. Positive correlations with urinary U concentration were recorded for U concentrations in drinking water (rs= 0.64, p |
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