Low zinc serum levels and high blood lead levels among school-age children in coastal area

2nd International Conference on Tropical and Coastal Region Eco Development 2016

地球科学;生态环境科学

Pramono, Adriyan^1 ; Panunggal, Binar^1 ; Rahfiludin, M.Zen^2 ; Swastawati, Fronthea^3

Department of Nutrition, Center of Nutrition Research (CENURE), Faculty of Medicine, Diponegoro University, Jl.Dr.Sutomo No.18, Semarang

50231, Indonesia^1

Faculty of Public Health, Diponegoro University, Jl. Prof.Sudarto SH, Semarang

50277, Indonesia^2

Faculty of Marine and Fisheries, Diponegoro University, Jl. Prof.Sudarto SH, Semarang

50277, Indonesia^3

关键词: Blood lead;    Blood lead levels;    Coastal regions;    Cross-sectional study;    Health concerns;    Hypochromic anemia;    school children;    Zinc deficiency;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/55/1/012058/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/55/1/012058

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The coverage of environmental lead toxicant was quiet wide. Lead exposure recently has been expected to be associated with zinc deficiency and blood indices disturbance. Emphasizing on children, which could absorb more than 50 % of lead that enters the body. Lead became the issue on the coastal area due to it has polluted the environment and waters as the source of fisheries products. This was a cross sectional study to determined nutritional status, blood lead levels, zinc serum levels, blood indices levels, fish intake among school children in coastal region of Semarang. This study was carried out on the school children aged between 8 and 12 years old in coastal region of Semarang. Nutritional status was figured out using anthropometry measurement. Blood lead and zinc serum levels were analyzed using the Atomic Absorbent Spectrophotometry (AAS) at a wavelength of 213.9 nm for zinc serum and 283.3 nm for blood lead. Blood indices was measured using auto blood hematology analyzer. Fish intake was assessed using 3-non consecutive days 24-hours food recall. The children had high lead levels (median 34.86 μg/dl, range 11.46 - 58.86 μg/dl) compared to WHO cut off. Zinc serum levels was low (median 18.10 μg/dl, range 10.25 - 41.39 μg/dl) compared to the Joint WHO/UNICEF/IAEA/IZiNCG cut off. Approximately 26.4% of children were anemic. This study concluded that all school children had high blood lead levels, low zinc serum, and presented microcytic hypochromic anemia. This phenomenon should be considered as public health concern.