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Objective:To analyze the differences in whole blood selenium (Se), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), and iron (Fe) levels of rural older adults among areas with different soil selenium levels, and explore the main factors associated with the six nutrient elements status, so as to provide a basis for further evaluating the health risks of people in areas with different soil selenium levels.Methods:Four administrative villages were randomly selected from the Se-deficient (soil Se content < 0.175 mg/kg), Se-sufficient (soil Se content 0.175 - < 0.400 mg/kg), Se-rich (soil Se content 0.400 - < 3.000 mg/kg) and Se-excessive (soil Se content ≥3.000 mg/kg) areas, respectively, in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (Enshi Prefecture) of Hubei Province in 2017 - 2018. And 100 elderly people aged 60 years or older (half male and half female) were randomly selected as the survey subjects in each servey site. The basic information such as general demography and lifestyle was collected through face-to-face questionnaires. Physical examination was performed and fasting venous blood was collected in the morning. The contents of blood Se, Zn, Cu, Mg, Ca, and Fe were determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The main factors associated with the six nutrient elements status were analyzed.Results:A total of 416 subjects were included, including 208 males and 208 females, whose average age was (72.43 ± 5.25) years, and body mass index (BMI) was (22.67 ± 3.49) kg/m 2. There were significant differences of blood Se, Zn, Cu, Mg, Ca and Fe levels between the areas with different Se levels ( Z/F = 288.30, 3.24, 14.81, 29.14, 131.28, 3.37, P < 0.05). Compared with Se-deficient and Se-sufficient areas, blood Se level was higher in Se-rich and Se-excessive areas and blood Zn level was lower in Se-excessive area ( P < 0.05); compared with Se-sufficient area, blood Cu level was lower in Se-deficient, Se-rich and Se-excessive areas, but blood Mg and Ca levels were higher ( P < 0.05), and the blood Fe level was lower in Se-excessive area ( P < 0.05). There were significant differences in the deficiency rates of Se, Zn, Cu, Mg, Ca and Fe among the elderly in different Se level areas (χ 2 = 140.83, 15.39, 31.90, 17.49, 157.60, 30.33, P < 0.01). There were significant differences in blood Zn, Cu, Ca and Fe levels between two gender groups ( P < 0.05); the blood Zn and Fe levels of the smokers were higher than those of the non-smokers, and the blood Cu level was lower than that of the non-smokers ( P < 0.05); the blood Zn and Fe levels of the drinkers were higher than those of the non-drinkers ( P < 0.05). Conclusions:The levels of six nutrient elements in the whole blood of the elderly in areas with different soil Se levels are different. To assess the health risks of the population in areas with different soil Se levels, it is necessary to consider the levels of multiple nutrient elements at the same time.
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Objective@#To evaluate the intervention effects of response to heatwave in communities of four cities, China.@*Methods@#Baseline survey on heatwave and climate change related knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) was conducted in the pilot communities in Harbin, Nanjing, Shenzhen and Chongqing, using face-to-face questionnaire interview in November, 2011 to November, 2013. Finally, 1 604 residents were interviewed. Intervention measures were implemented in summers of 2013 and 2014, including delivering early warning information of heatwave health risk and launching health education and promotion. The second survey was conducted in same communities using the same questionnaire and sampling method as baseline survey in November, 2014, and 1 640 residents were interviewed. The Chi-square test was used to compare the demographic characteristics and KAP of community residents between before and after intervention, and the factors that affected the intervention effect were selected by logistic multiple stepwise regression model.@*Results@#The age of the residents interviewed before and after intervention was (46.4 ± 15.5) years and (45.0 ± 15.9) years, respectively. Overall, the residents' awareness rates of heatwave before and after intervention were 70.5% (1 131/1 604) and 82.9% (1 359/1 640) (χ2=69.40, P<0.001). The rate of residents who had wished to receive early warning information increased 6.3% (χ2=41.11, P<0.001), which reached 94.6% (1 551/1 604) after intervention from 88.3% (1 416/1 604) in baseline survey. Both heatwave health risk early warning and health education had big impacts to residents. There were 92.7% (1 105 residents) among the 1 192 residents who had received the early warning information arrange work and rest time according to the early warning information and 93.0% (1 231 residents) among the 1 323 residents who knew about health education activities being conducted in community thought that the community health education activities had made active role in protecting health from heatwaves. After a series of intervention, male had a effect on attitude about hot wave than female in Nanjing and Chongqing, OR (95%CI) were 1.48(1.02-2.16) and 1.45 (1.18-2.05) , respectively; compared with subjects below primary school education, people with college degree or above had higer KAP in all cities (ORs range from 1.18 to 2.05), P<0.05; regular physical exercise (ORs range from 1.39 to 2.70) also had profound impacts on KAP in all cities (P<0.05).@*Conclusion@#s Early warning and health education were effective measures to enhance residents' response capacity to climate change.
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Objective To understand the associations between extremely low and high air temperature and the years of life lost (YLL) due to diabetes deaths in Chongqing and Harbin with different climatic characteristics in China.Methods A double threshold B-spline distributed lag non-linear model (DLNM) was used to investigate the lag and cumulative effects of extremely low and high air temperature on YLL due to diabetes for lag 0-30 days by using the urban meteorological and diabetes mortality data of Chongqing (2011-2013) and Harbin (2008-2010).The effects were expressed as relative risk (RR).Results In Chongqing,the cold effects on YLL due to diabetes were delayed by four days and lasted for three days (lag4-6) with the highest RR of 1.304 (95％ CI:1.033-1.647) at lag5.The hot effects were delayed by one day (lagl) with RR of 1.321 (95％ CI:1.061-1.646).In Harbin,the extreme cold effects on YLL were delayed by four days and lasted for seven days (lag4-10) with the highest RR of 1.309 (95％CI:1.088-1.575) at lag6.The hot effects were delayed by one day and lasted for four days (lagl-4) with the highest RR of 1.460 (95％ CI:1.114-1.915) at lag2.The unit risk for cold and hot effects was 43.7％ (P=0.005 5) and 18.0％ (P=0.000 2) in Chongqing and 15.0％ (P=0.000 8) and 29.5％(P=0.001 2) in Harbin,respectively.Conclusions Both extremely low air temperature and extremely high air temperature might increase the years of life lost due to diabetes in cities with different climate characteristics.Health education about diabetes prevention should provide information about the effects of extreme weather events.
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Objective To understand the associations between extremely low and high air temperature and the years of life lost (YLL) due to diabetes deaths in Chongqing and Harbin with different climatic characteristics in China.Methods A double threshold B-spline distributed lag non-linear model (DLNM) was used to investigate the lag and cumulative effects of extremely low and high air temperature on YLL due to diabetes for lag 0-30 days by using the urban meteorological and diabetes mortality data of Chongqing (2011-2013) and Harbin (2008-2010).The effects were expressed as relative risk (RR).Results In Chongqing,the cold effects on YLL due to diabetes were delayed by four days and lasted for three days (lag4-6) with the highest RR of 1.304 (95％ CI:1.033-1.647) at lag5.The hot effects were delayed by one day (lagl) with RR of 1.321 (95％ CI:1.061-1.646).In Harbin,the extreme cold effects on YLL were delayed by four days and lasted for seven days (lag4-10) with the highest RR of 1.309 (95％CI:1.088-1.575) at lag6.The hot effects were delayed by one day and lasted for four days (lagl-4) with the highest RR of 1.460 (95％ CI:1.114-1.915) at lag2.The unit risk for cold and hot effects was 43.7％ (P=0.005 5) and 18.0％ (P=0.000 2) in Chongqing and 15.0％ (P=0.000 8) and 29.5％(P=0.001 2) in Harbin,respectively.Conclusions Both extremely low air temperature and extremely high air temperature might increase the years of life lost due to diabetes in cities with different climate characteristics.Health education about diabetes prevention should provide information about the effects of extreme weather events.
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A method was developed for the determination of four kinds of bisphenolic and halogenated bisphenolic compounds including bisphenol F, bisphenol A, tetrachlorobisphenol A, tetrabromobisphenol A in human urine using high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. The analytes was extracted by solid phase extraction. The separation of the analytes was achieved on an Atlantis T3 column (3. 0×150 mm, 3 μm) gradient eluted with the mobile phase of acetonitrile and water at the rate of 250 μL/min, and detected by an electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry in the multiple-reaction-monitoring negative mode. The quantification was carried out by matrix-matched calibration curve. The average recoveries at 3 spiked levels were 86%-118%, with intra-day precision of 2 . 6%-17 . 0% and inter-day precision of 3. 2%-18. 0%. The limits of detection of four analytes (S/N=3) were 0. 01-0. 25 μg/L. The method was applied to the analysis of 200 human urines samples and the results showed that the method was simple, sensitive and reliable.
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Objective To know the effects of air pollution on the activity of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) in the placenta tissue of women in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. Methods The decrement of BaP after the metabolic procedure was used as the indicator of AHH activity. 151 lying-in women were selected and the AHH activity in the placenta was determined by fluorescence spectrophotometer, the precooling EDTA was added in the determination to inactivate AHH and to stop the reaction completely in order to get more stable result. Results The AHH activity in the placenta tissue increased as the atmospheric particle concentration and the BaP concentration in the particles increased. Conclusion The air pollution may induce the AHH activity increase in the placenta tissue of pregnant women in Taiyuan. The AHH activity can be used as the biological monitoring indicator in the PAHs polluted areas.
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Objective To discuss the relationship between chronic bronchitis and meteorological conditions in Nanjing. Methods Took the record of the recrudescing time of 200 old chronic bronchitis patients for a year. The correlation between the changing of air temperature and pressure and the monthly chronic bronchitis recrudescing in a year was analyzed. The main meteorological conditions by which recrudescing were affected in different season were selected with multiple stepwise correlation analysis. Results There were chronic bronchitis patients recrudescing the whole year, but the most were in winter and the least in summer. The most recrudescing happened in December and April, and the least in May and July. The meteorological factors that affected chronic bronchitis patients recrudescing were air temperature, pressure and wind speed. The relative coefficient of case numbers between 24 hours variations of air temperature and pressure was 0.5762(P=0.0499) and 0.5841(P=0.0461), respectively. Conclusion The steady meteorological conditions are not good for recrudescing of chronic bronchitis patients. And temperature descent and high air pressure are the main meteorological factors that induce chronic bronchitis recrudescing.
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Objective To explore the impacts of high temperature on health in summer in different cities of China.Methods The ettects of high temperature on health in different cities were analyzed through metereological data collecting and questionnaire survey on health of residents in Guangazhou,Nanjing and Harbin cities,300 cases respectively.Results Guangzhou,Nanjing and Harbin locat in different latitudes and have deifferent climates.Guangzhou had the high temperature all the year,with little daily temperature difference.Nanjing had cold winter and hot summer.Harbin's temperature all the year round and large daily temperature difference.In summer of 2003,the utilization rate of air-condition was 85%,75% and 12%,(respectively in Guangzhou,Nanjing and Harbin),the insomnia rate was 21.6%,38.3% and 12.9%,the occurrence rate of fatigue was 21%,25.1% and 15.2%,the occurrence rate of aggravation of existing diseases was 5.0%,7.3% and 6.1%,the incidence rate of heatstroke was 21.6%,38.3% and 12.9%,respectively.Conclusion High temperature in summer can lead to not only heat stroke,but also insomnia,fatigue,aggravation of existing diseases,et al.The residents in different cities have different tolerance to high temperature.The continual climate warming will threat human health in different latitude cities in difterent latitudes.
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Objective To explore the transmission route of Legionella pneumophila in central air-conditioning system. Methods The environmental samples collected from four public places of Nanjing city were detected by nested-PCR and analyzed by phylogenetic analysis. Results The positive rate of Legionella pneumophila in sediment, cooling water, aerosol near cooling tower, dust in duct surface and indoor air were 100%(9/9),78.6% (11/14),25.4% (17/67),16.7% (2/12) and 17.3% (13/75), respectively. The nucleotide sequence similarities of Legionella pneumophila in cooling water and indoor air was more than 92%. Conclusion The main pollution source of Legionella pneumophila is cooling water and Legionella pneumophila can be transmitted to indoor air through central airconditioning system.
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The association between the adverse pregnancy outcome and the exposure to air pollutants has recently become a major concern.The researches on the relationship between air pollutants and preterm delivery and low birth weight need to be further studied.This paper reviewed the epidemiological studies on the impact of air pollutants(PM10,CO,NO2,SO2 etc) on preterm delivery and low birth weight,aimed to provide some references for the control of air pollution and the occurrence of adverse pregnancy outcome and the further study on the mechanism.
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons(PAHs) is a class of organic pollutants widely distributed in various environmental medium,and human exposure can occur by many routes (inhalation,ingestion,and skin contact),regardless of the source. PAHs can seriously impact human health and environment due to their high toxicity,stability. Studies on the toxicity of PAHs have involved in many fields,such as genotoxicity,hepatotoxicity,developmental toxicity,carcinogenesis and so on. The development of studies on genotoxicity of PAHs was reviewed in this paper,including DNA damage,chromosome damage and genetic susceptibility.
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Objective To study the relation between copper,copper-zinc ratio in blood and blood-fat only in the copper intake lower than the normal acceptable daily intake,and to provide a unified dosage evidence for copper multi-ways exposure.Methods Forty-two SD rats were divided into 7 groups randomly.The rats in one group among them as the normal control group were fed on the normal fodder and water,the other 6 groups were fed on special fodder without copper and deionized water and i.g.copper gluconate at doses of 0ADI(the acceptable daily intake of rat),1/625ADI(0.000 128 mg/ml),1/125ADI(0.000 64 mg/ml),1/25ADI(0.003 2 mg/ml),1/5ADI(0.016 mg/ml) and ADI(0.8 mg/ml),for 30 days.The activity of ceruloplasmin(CP),the content of copper,zinc in the blood and the level of total cholesterol(TC),triglyceride(TG),high-density lipoprotein(HDL) and low density-lipoprotein(LDL) were determined.Results In the case of copper intake lower than the normal acceptable daily intake,the activity of CP in the blood of all treated rats were lower than the normal level(P
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Due to a greater emphasis placed on non-animal test and our deeper understanding of allergic contact dermatitis,many researchers have tried several approaches in developing an in vitro skin sensitization test.The development of in vitro methods for predicting contact sensitization potential was reviewed in this paper,including cell-based methods,human skin equivalent/reconstituted epidermis cultures,peptide/protein reactivity,and quantitative structure-activity relationship.
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The biomarkers can facilitate the evaluation of the factors modulating susceptibility to carcinogens among human populations. As an indicator of DNA damage, carcinogen-DNA adducts represent a critical step on the carcinogenic pathway. Genetic differences in detoxification capabilities and the DNA repair efficiency may modulate PAH-induced DNA damage and carcinogenesis. Experimental animal studies have demonstrated that the fetus and infant are more susceptible to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) induced carcinogenesis than adults. Recent years, more and more studies have shown that the prenatal exposure to PAHs not only associated with the increasing risk of cancer, but also related to adverse birth outcomes. This paper reviewed the differential susceptibility to PAHs between the paired maternal and newborn and discussed the relationship between the DNA adducts levels and the gene polymorphisms.