Assessing risk to human health for heavy metal contamination through street dust in the Southeast Asian Megacity: Dhaka, Bangladesh

MS Rahman, MDH Khan, YN Jolly, J Kabir… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Contaminants in road dusts can directly pose significant human health risks through oral
ingestion, particle inhalation, and dermal contact. Therefore, this study has been designed to …

Source identification, contamination status and health risk assessment of heavy metals from road dusts in Dhaka, Bangladesh

A Nargis, A Habib, MN Islam, K Chen… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, concentrations of Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb were determined in road dusts
collected from different locations in Dhaka to assess source, contamination status and health …

Ecological and human health risk assessment of heavy metal contamination in road dust in the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, India

S Roy, SK Gupta, J Prakash, G Habib, K Baudh… - … Science and Pollution …, 2019 - Springer
The present study was carried out to determine the contamination levels of heavy metals in
road dust of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), India and its consequent effect on …

Risk assessment of the impact of heavy metals in urban traffic dust on human health

N Mahmoud, D Al-Shahwani, H Al-Thani, RJ Isaifan - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
Excessive exposure to heavy metals induces potential adverse health impacts in humans.
More specifically, heavy metals in particulate matter (PM) have a significant impact since PM …

Heavy metal pollution and associated health risk assessment of urban dust in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

AG Alghamdi, MH El-Saeid, AJ Alzahrani, HM Ibrahim - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Depending on their particle size and concentration, heavy metals in urban dust pose a
health hazard to humans. This study investigated the total concentration, health risk …

A comprehensive assessment of heavy metal contamination in road dusts along a hectic national highway of Bangladesh: Spatial distribution, sources of …

MH Kabir, T Kormoker, RS Shammi, TR Tusher… - Toxin …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Human activities around or within national highways, combined with atmospheric mixing,
produce road dust, which can cause health problems through a variety of exposure routes …

Potentially toxic elements in street dust from an urban city of a developing country: ecological and probabilistic health risks assessment

MH Kabir, T Kormoker, MS Islam, R Khan… - … science and pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Anthropogenic activities in and around the urban highways followed by aerodynamic
processing generate street dusts, which can cause adverse health effects through different …

Spatial distribution of dust–bound trace elements in Pakistan and their implications for human exposure

SAMAS Eqani, A Kanwal, AK Bhowmik, M Sohail… - Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
This study aims to assess the spatial patterns of selected dust-borne trace elements
alongside the river Indus Pakistan, their relation with anthropogenic and natural sources …

Road dust–driven elemental distribution in megacity Dhaka, Bangladesh: environmental, ecological, and human health risks assessment

T Kormoker, MH Kabir, R Khan, MS Islam… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Road dust, which reflects ambient air quality, receives various pollutants including toxic
metal (oid) s from several natural and/or anthropogenic sources. This manuscript reports a …

A review of heavy metals in indoor dust and its human health-risk implications

SY Tan, SM Praveena, EZ Abidin… - … on environmental health, 2016 - degruyter.com
Indoor dust acts as a media for heavy metal deposition. Past studies have shown that heavy
metal concentration in indoor dust is affected by local human activities and atmospheric …