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Title: | Effect of non-essential heavy metals on human health |
Other Titles: | Heavy metals in the environment : management strategies for global pollution |
Authors: | Cuschieri, Andrea Azzopardi, Joseph Ignatius Blundell, Renald |
Keywords: | Heavy metals -- Environmental aspects Environmental toxicology Mercury -- Toxicology Metals -- Toxicology Food chains (Ecology) Heavy metals -- Physiological effect Human beings -- Effect of environment on |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Publisher: | American Chemical Society |
Citation: | Cuschieri, A., Azzopardi, J. I., & Blundell, R. (2023). Effect of non-essential heavy metals on human health. In D. Kumar Verma, Ch. Verma, & P. K. Mahish (Eds.), Heavy metals in the environment : management strategies for global pollution (pp. 118-133). Washington: American Chemical Society. |
Abstract: | Heavy metals are increasingly becoming relevant to human health due their increasing concentrations in the environment and numerous food chains. Excessive exposure to heavy metals, including essential heavy metals, can have serious consequences on human health, including the development of various cancers. Exposure to heavy metals is hard to avoid due to their prevalence in our food chains; thus, it of crucial importance to understand the outcomes heavy metals may have on human health,as well as their contribution to disease aetiology and pathogenesis. In this chapter, the effects of a multitude of heavy metals on human health are discussed through a concise review of recent studies which investigate the contributions of heavy metals to human health and disease. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/116138 |
ISBN: | 9780841297050 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacM&SPB |
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