Hair mercury levels in relation to marine fish consumption among adults in Malaysia.
Consumption of carnivorous fish is one of the major sources of human exposure to methyl mercury (MeHg). This study presents the data on fish consumption habits and hair mercury levels taken from 201 adults aged between 17- 72 years from four districts in the Peninsular Malaysia. The means for tota...
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| author | Tengku Ismail, Tengku Hanidza Tengku Khalkausar, F. Yasutake, A. M. Zain, Sharifuddin Juahir, Hafizan Harun, Rosta |
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| description | Consumption of carnivorous fish is one of the major sources of human exposure to methyl mercury (MeHg). This
study presents the data on fish consumption habits and hair mercury levels taken from 201 adults aged between 17- 72
years from four districts in the Peninsular Malaysia. The means for total mercury (THg) ranged from 0.93 ppm-1.69 ppm.
The means for females and males were 1.21 ppm (SD=0.76) and 1.48 ppm (SD=0.89) respectively. The THg level for
59.30% of the study population (26.60% female participants) exceeded the USEPA recommendation of 1 ppm. The average
fish consumption was 180.19+11.34g/ day/person with higher fish consumption in both rural coastal areas compared with
the urban communities (p=0.0001). Age was positively correlated with THg (rs=0.4588; p=0.0001) followed by the amount of fish eaten (rs=0.4199; p=0.0001), use of whitening cream (rs=0.2410; p=0.006), BMI (rs=0.2034; p=0.0041), location of study (rs=0.1818; p=0.01), and gender (0.1637; p=0.0241). However, we found negative correlation between the numbers of filling with THg (rs=-0.2485; p=0.004). |
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| spelling | upm-149572016-01-19T01:27:34Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14957/ Hair mercury levels in relation to marine fish consumption among adults in Malaysia. Tengku Ismail, Tengku Hanidza Tengku Khalkausar, F. Yasutake, A. M. Zain, Sharifuddin Juahir, Hafizan Harun, Rosta Consumption of carnivorous fish is one of the major sources of human exposure to methyl mercury (MeHg). This study presents the data on fish consumption habits and hair mercury levels taken from 201 adults aged between 17- 72 years from four districts in the Peninsular Malaysia. The means for total mercury (THg) ranged from 0.93 ppm-1.69 ppm. The means for females and males were 1.21 ppm (SD=0.76) and 1.48 ppm (SD=0.89) respectively. The THg level for 59.30% of the study population (26.60% female participants) exceeded the USEPA recommendation of 1 ppm. The average fish consumption was 180.19+11.34g/ day/person with higher fish consumption in both rural coastal areas compared with the urban communities (p=0.0001). Age was positively correlated with THg (rs=0.4588; p=0.0001) followed by the amount of fish eaten (rs=0.4199; p=0.0001), use of whitening cream (rs=0.2410; p=0.006), BMI (rs=0.2034; p=0.0041), location of study (rs=0.1818; p=0.01), and gender (0.1637; p=0.0241). However, we found negative correlation between the numbers of filling with THg (rs=-0.2485; p=0.004). Thai Society of Higher Eduction Institutes on Environment 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14957/1/Hair%20mercury%20levels%20in%20relation%20to%20marine%20fish%20consumption%20among%20adults%20in%20Malaysia.pdf Tengku Ismail, Tengku Hanidza and Tengku Khalkausar, F. and Yasutake, A. and M. Zain, Sharifuddin and Juahir, Hafizan and Harun, Rosta (2010) Hair mercury levels in relation to marine fish consumption among adults in Malaysia. Environment Asia, 3. pp. 175-185. ISSN 1906-1714 http://www.tshe.org/ea/abstracts/2010_3-s_26.html English |
| spellingShingle | Tengku Ismail, Tengku Hanidza Tengku Khalkausar, F. Yasutake, A. M. Zain, Sharifuddin Juahir, Hafizan Harun, Rosta Hair mercury levels in relation to marine fish consumption among adults in Malaysia. |
| title | Hair mercury levels in relation to marine fish consumption among adults in Malaysia. |
| title_full | Hair mercury levels in relation to marine fish consumption among adults in Malaysia. |
| title_fullStr | Hair mercury levels in relation to marine fish consumption among adults in Malaysia. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hair mercury levels in relation to marine fish consumption among adults in Malaysia. |
| title_short | Hair mercury levels in relation to marine fish consumption among adults in Malaysia. |
| title_sort | hair mercury levels in relation to marine fish consumption among adults in malaysia. |
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