House Dust and Inorganic Urinary Arsenic in Two Arizona Mining Towns

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• Personal Author:
  Burgess JL ; Cebrian ME ; Hysong TA ; O'Rourke MK
• Description:
  Residents of copper mining and smelting towns may have increased risk of arsenic exposure from elevated arsenic contained in environmental media. To determine the relation of arsenic in house dust to inorganic urinary arsenic concentrations, a door-to-door survey was conducted in Hayden and Winkelman, Arizona. A total of 122 households (404 individuals) participated; 85 provided dust samples. Urine was collected at first morning void and analyzed for total and speciated arsenic. Speciation of arsenic was performed in samples with total arsenic above 10 micro g/l (N=106). The generalized estimating equation was used to determine the relation between urinary and house dust arsenic concentrations, allowing adjustment for the correlation of measurements obtained from the same home. Seafood consumption during the past 3 days and smoking contributed significantly to inorganic urinary arsenic, after adjusting for age and gender. Arsenic in house dust was not significantly associated with inorganic urinary arsenic measurements in this population. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Arsenic Copper Dust Environmental Exposure Environmental Monitoring Inorganic Chemicals Mining Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Arsenic-compounds Copper-compounds Copper-dust Dust-exposure Dust-particles Dust-sampling Dusts Environmental-exposure Environmental-health-monitoring Inorganic-compounds Miners Mining-industry Risk-analysis Risk-factors Statistical-analysis

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• ISSN:
  1053-4245
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  211-218
• Volume:
  13
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20031200
• Citation:
  J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 2003 May; 13(3):211-218
• Contact Point Address:
  California Air Resources Board, 1001 I. St., PO Box 2815, Sacramento, California 95812, USA
• Email:
  thysong@arb.ca.gov
• CAS Registry Number:
  Arsenic (CAS RN 7440-38-2) ; Copper (CAS RN 7440-50-8)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Performing Organization:
  University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19950701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology
• End Date:
  20060630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:82cd3f8f8a52a958dab616d19cc7d69853cf45938bfd950247190f737ecbe8cb05c77ba4f940057377af90976c530dd22c31059e86bac559201afbc4b22bd202
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191521/cdc_191521_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 178.87 KB ]