Epidemiological evidence for the effect of environmental heavy metal exposure on the immune system in children

K Zheng, Z Zeng, Q Tian, J Huang, Q Zhong… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heavy metals exist widely in daily life, and exposure to heavy metals caused by
environmental pollution has become a serious public health problem worldwide. Due to …

Spatial distribution of heavy metal contamination in road dust samples from an urban environment in Samsun, Türkiye

SN Istanbullu, H Sevik, K Isinkaralar… - Bulletin of environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Road dust is an environmental pollution indicator created by human activities for urban land
use. This study aimed to determine the spatial distribution pattern and degree of trace metals …

Heavy metal pollution in indoor dust of residential, commercial, and industrial areas: a review of evolutionary trends

A Roy, AK Jha, A Kumar, T Bhattacharya… - Air Quality, Atmosphere …, 2024 - Springer
Heavy metals (HMs) in indoor dust are among the most toxic micropollutants and have
attracted mainly the attention of researchers in the last three decades concerning the …

Heavy metals in indoor dust: Spatial distribution, influencing factors, and potential health risks

T Shi, Y Wang - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Given the large proportion of time that people spend indoors, the potential health risks
posed by heavy metals in the indoor environment deserve greater attention. A global-scale …

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 …

Characterizing pollution indices and children health risk assessment of potentially toxic metal (oid) s in school dust of Lahore, Pakistan

A Rehman, G Liu, B Yousaf, M Zia-ur-Rehman… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Toxic metal pollution is a renowned environmental concern, especially to sensitive
environments like school classrooms and their association with children's health. The study …

Occurrence, sources and health risks of toxic metal (loid) s in road dust from a mega city (Nanjing) in China

X Wang, E Liu, Q Lin, L Liu, H Yuan, Z Li - Environmental pollution, 2020 - Elsevier
Potential toxic metal (loid) s (PTMs) in road dust are a major concern in relation to urban
environmental quality. Identifying pollution hotspots and sources of PTMs is an essential …

Health risk assessment of heavy metal contamination in street dust of federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Š Delibašić, N Đokić-Kahvedžić, M Karić… - … and Ecological Risk …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this study was to assess contamination and potential human health risks of heavy
metals in street dust from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FB&H). In total, 117 …

A preliminary study of heavy metals pollution in the sandy dust storms and its human risk assessment from middle and south of Iraq

SA Kadhum - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020 - Springer
Sandy dust storms in Iraq represented a serious problem for human health, not only in Iraq
but also extended to be in other countries. Therefore, this study has assessed five heavy …

Evaluation and proteomic analysis of lead adsorption by lactic acid bacteria

S Liu, Y Zheng, Y Ma, A Sarwar, X Zhao, T Luo… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Heavy metals are a growing threat to human health due to the resulting damage to the
ecology; the removal of heavy metals by lactic acid bacteria (LAB) has been a focus of many …