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MercuNorth : monitoring mercury in pregnant women from the Arctic as a baseline to assess the effectiveness of the Minamata Convention |
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| Author: | Adlard, Bryan1; Lemire, Mélanie2,3; Bonefeld-Jørgensen, Eva C.4,5; |
| Organizations: |
1Population Studies Division, Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada 2Axe Santé Des Populations Et Pratiques Optimales En Santé, Centre De Recherche Du CHU De Québec, Québec, QC, Canada 3Département De Médecine Sociale Et Préventive, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
4Center for Arctic Health & Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
5Greenland Center for Health Research, University of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland 6dCenter for Arctic Health & Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark 7Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland 8Institute of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway 9International Research Laboratory for Reproductive Ecotoxicology (IL RET), The National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia 10Thule Institute and Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu and University of Arctic, Oulu, Finland 11Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Nordlab, Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Nordlab, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland 12Environmental Chemistry Department, NILU-Norwegian Institute for Air Research, the Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway 13lDepartment of Community Medicine, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway 14Department of Arctic Environmental Health, Northwest Public Health Research Center, St. Petersburg, Russia 15Section of Sustainable Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden 16Department of Environment and Health, Division of Community Health, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, Alaska, USA 17Centre De Toxicologie, Institut National De Santé Publique Du Québec, Québec, QC, Canada |
| Format: | article |
| Version: | published version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 1.9 MB) |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2021092146695 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Informa,
2021
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| Publish Date: | 2021-09-21 |
| Description: |
AbstractExposure to mercury (Hg) is a global concern, particularly among Arctic populations that rely on the consumption of marine mammals and fish which are the main route of Hg exposure for Arctic populations. The MercuNorth project was created to establish baseline Hg levels across several Arctic regions during the period preceding the Minamata Convention. Blood samples were collected from 669 pregnant women, aged 18–44 years, between 2010 and 2016 from sites across the circumpolar Arctic including Alaska (USA), Nunavik (Canada), Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Northern Lapland (Finland) and Murmansk Oblast (Russia). Descriptive statistics were calculated, multiple pairwise comparisons were made between regions, and unadjusted linear trend analyses were performed. Geometric mean concentrations of total Hg were highest in Nunavik (5.20 µg/L) and Greenland (3.79 µg/L), followed by Alaska (2.13 µg/L), with much lower concentrations observed in the other regions (ranged between 0.48 and 1.29 µg/L). In Nunavik, Alaska and Greenland, blood Hg concentrations have decreased significantly since 1992, 2000 and 2010 respectively with % annual decreases of 4.7%, 7.5% and 2.7%, respectively. These circumpolar data combined with fish and marine mammal consumption data can be used for assessing long-term Hg trends and the effectiveness of the Minamata Convention. see all
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| Series: |
International journal of circumpolar health |
| ISSN: | 1239-9736 |
| ISSN-E: | 2242-3982 |
| ISSN-L: | 1239-9736 |
| Volume: | 80 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Article number: | 1881345 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/22423982.2021.1881345 |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1080/22423982.2021.1881345 |
| Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
| Field of Science: |
317 Pharmacy 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health |
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| Funding: |
This work was supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers [Project #14137]; Swedish Environmental Protection Agency [n/a]; Kolarctic ENPI CBC 2007-2013 programme [n/a]; Danish Environmental Agency [n/a]. |
| Copyright information: |
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |