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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Uranium and other contaminants in hair from the parents of children with congenital anomalies in Fallujah, Iraq. | Alaani et al. Conflict and Health 2011 5 15 http www.conflictandhealth.eom content 5 1 15 CONFLICT AND HEALTH RESEARCH Open Access Uranium and other contaminants in hair from the parents of children with congenital anomalies in Fallujah Iraq Samira Alaani1 Muhammed Tafash1 Christopher Busby2 Malak Hamdan3 and Eleonore Blaurock-Busch4 Abstract Background Recent reports have drawn attention to increases in congenital birth anomalies and cancer in Fallujah Iraq blamed on teratogenic genetic and genomic stress thought to result from depleted Uranium contamination following the battles in the town in 2004. Contamination of the parents of the children and of the environment by Uranium and other elements was investigated using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry. Hair samples from 25 fathers and mothers of children diagnosed with congenital anomalies were analysed for Uranium and 51 other elements. Mean ages of the parents was fathers 29.6 SD 6.2 mothers 27.3 SD 6.8 . For a sub-group of 6 women long locks of hair were analysed for Uranium along the length of the hair to obtain information about historic exposures. Samples of soil and water were also analysed and Uranium isotope ratios determined. Results Levels of Ca Mg Co Fe Mn V Zn Sr Al Ba Bi Ga Pb Hg Pd and U for mothers only were significantly higher than published mean levels in an uncontaminated population in Sweden. In high excess were Ca Mg Sr Al Bi and Hg. Of these only Hg can be considered as a possible cause of congenital anomaly. Mean levels for Uranium were 0.16 ppm SD 0.11 range 0.02 to 0.4 higher in mothers 0.18 ppm SD 0.09 than fathers 0.11 ppm SD 0.13 . The highly unusual non-normal Fallujah distribution mean was significantly higher than literature results for a control population Southern Israel 0.062 ppm and a non-parametric test Mann Whitney-Wilcoxon gave p 0.016 for this comparison of the distribution. Mean levels in Fallujah were also much higher than the mean of measurements reported from
