A5101483029- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
- Heavy metals in environment
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- Arsenic contamination and mitigation
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
- Plant Surface Properties and Treatments
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Hydrogen's biological and therapeutic effects
- Marine and Coastal Research
- Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
- Medical and Biological Ozone Research
- Dermatology and Skin Diseases
- Contact Dermatitis and Allergies
- Noise Effects and Management
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
- Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory
National Institute of Environmental Research
2006-2016
Ministry of Environment
2012-2013
Dong-A University
2010
Concentrations of heavy metals exceed safety thresholds in the soil near Janghang Copper Refinery, a smelter Korea that operated from 1936 to 1989. This study was conducted evaluate level exposure toxic and potential effect on health people living smelter. The included 572 adults within 4 km compared them with 413 controls group similar lifestyles rural area approximately 15 Urinary arsenic (As) did not decrease according distance smelter, regardless gender working history smelters mines....
The aim of this study was to determine the association between urinary cadmium (U-cd) concentration and diabetes in middle-aged Korean residents abandoned mines using first Health Effect Surveillance for Residents Abandoned Metal (HESRAM).This cross-sectional conducted on 719 40-70 years 38 metal Korea. Data collected by HESRAM from 2008 2011. correlation coefficient U-cd fasting blood glucose, odds ratio tertiles prevalence analyzed according sex category.The glucose 0.182 male. Logistic...
Objectives: This study was carried out for the purpose of evaluating blood mercury concentration residents Busan, Korea, as well relationship between and pattern fish consumption along with other epidemiological factors.Methods: Two hundred ninety-three subjects (147 men 146 women), who were aged 40 years or more, recruited into this June October 2009.The mean age 54.3 (with a range 40-70 years).Mercury concentrations in samples measured using gold-amalgam collection method.Results: The...
Joo-Hwa Kim, Jae-Won Oh, Ha-Baik Lee, Seong-Won Hai-Lee Chung, Myung-Hee Kook, Kang-Seo Park, Bong-Seong Ja-Kyung Dong-Jin Won-Ki Paik, Kyu-Rang Hey-Lim Young-Jin Choi, Seung-Do Yu, Jeong-Hwa Yong-Seong Cho Department of Pediatrics, Hanyang University College Medicine, Seoul; Busan St. Mary's Hospital, Busan; Catholic Daegu School Daegu; Gwangju Veteran's Gwangju; Jeonju Presbyterian Medical Center, Jeonju; Gangneung Asan Gangneung; Gangwon National Chuncheon; Ulsan Dongkang Ulsan; Life...
Purpose: Sensitization to allergens is considered as major mechanism of allergy and related the development allergic diseases. The objective this study was evaluate overall sensitization rates inhalant relationship between polysensitization prevalence diseases in children adolescents. Methods: A cross-sectional pilot 122 elementary school students, 114 middle 115 high students from Incheon Asan conducted by using International Study Asthma Allergies Childhood (ISSAC) questionnaire. skin...
This study aimed to estimate the status of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure through urine cotinine analysis among nonsmoking workers in Korea and analyze factors affecting concentrations. Data were based on "The 2008 National Survey for Environmental Pollutants Human Body," a cross-sectional Institute Research Korea. We selected 1448 adult from 200 localities participate this survey. Urine concentrations analyzed using gas chromatograph-mass selective detector. calculated separate...
Background: Arsenic is a carcinogenic heavy metal that has species-dependent health effects and abandoned mines are source of significant arsenic exposure.Therefore, the aims this study were to analyze urinary species their concentration in residents living near monitor environmental Korea.Methods: This was performed 2014 assess excretion patterns South Korea.Demographic data such as gender, age, mine working history, period residency, dietary patterns, smoking alcohol use, type potable...
P-441 Introduction: To evaluate the health effects associated with air pollution is very important in Public Health. As information about risks has become available, attention focused increasingly on smaller particles such as particulate matter an aerodynamic diameter to or less than a 10 2.5 μm (PM10 PM2.5, respectively). Our objective was relationship between ambient and pulmonary function measured by peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) among Chinese school children. This community-based...