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Women exposed to environmental cadmium face a variety of harmful effects.
2004 FEB 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women exposed to environmental cadmium face a variety of harmful effects.
"On a viewpoint of gender differences in Cd body burden and its health effects, we reviewed the population- based research including our own which conducted in Japan, Thailand, Australia, Poland, Belgium and Sweden to assess health effects of human exposure to environmental cadmium and their potential mechanisms," wrote M. Nishijo and colleagues, Kanazawa Medical University, Department of Public Health.
"As a result, six risk factors in Cd health effects in women have been identified; (1) more serious type of renal tubular dysfunction, (2) difference in calcium metabolism and its regulatory hormones, (3) kidney sensitivity; difference in P450 phenotype, (4) pregnancy, (5) body iron store status, and (6) genetic factors. Further studies of Cd toxicity targeted to women ...
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