2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The presumption of intake for methylmercury for a pregnant woman by methylmercury monitor of hair, mother's milk, and umbilical cord.
Project/Area Number |
18590605
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Public health/Health science
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Research Institution | Kagoshima University |
Principal Investigator |
ANDOU Tetsuo Kagoshima University, 大学院・医歯学総合研究科, 助教 (10107865)
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Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2009
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Keywords | 胎児 / メチル水銀曝露 / 授乳形態 / 頭髪水銀濃度 / 成長・発達 / 歩き始め / 発現時期 |
Research Abstract |
The risk on growth and development for methylmercury exposure to baby was examined by 252 of mothers and their babies at M town in Kagoshima Prefecture. The geometric mean of total mercury concentration of mother's hair was 1.60ppm. The total mercury concentration of mother's hair has decreased as the period of mother's milk giving long. It could be calculated that the hair mercury concentration of 1.065ppm had decreased by suckling mother's milk for one month according to the regression coefficient. When the calving interval is short, he mercury concentration of mother's hair is high. The lactations of mother's milk being longer brought the time of starting walking of the baby by oneself was late.
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