Manuel Lozano, Mario Murcia, Raquel Soler-Blasco, Maribel Casas, Begotxu Zubero, Gabriel Riutort-Mayol, Fernando Gil, Pablo Olmedo, Joan O Grimalt, Rubén Amorós, Aitana Lertxundi, Martine Vrijheid, Ferran Ballester, Sabrina Llop
BACKGROUND: Humans are regularly exposed to metals and metalloids present in air, water, food, soil and domestic materials. Most of them can cross the placental barrier and cause adverse impacts on the developing foetus. OBJECTIVES: To describe the prenatal concentrations of metals and metalloids and to study the associated sociodemographic, environmental and dietary factors in pregnant Spanish women. METHODS: Subjects were 1346 pregnant women of the INMA Project, for whom the following metals arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), molybdenum (Mo), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb), antimony (Sb), selenium (Se), thallium (Tl) and zinc (Zn) were determined in urine, at both the first and the third trimesters of gestation...
August 6, 2021: Chemosphere