FETAL HEMOGLOBIN AS A POSSIBLE MARKER OF SUSCEPTIBILITY TO WORKING-CONDITIONS FOR CERTAIN MEN EXPOSED TO INDUSTRIAL POLLUTANTS

Authors
STEPNIEWSKI N CIESZKOWSKA U KOLARZYK E TARGOSZ D PACH J KITLINSKI M
Citation
N. Stepniewski et al., FETAL HEMOGLOBIN AS A POSSIBLE MARKER OF SUSCEPTIBILITY TO WORKING-CONDITIONS FOR CERTAIN MEN EXPOSED TO INDUSTRIAL POLLUTANTS, Environmental toxicology and pharmacology, 2(2-3), 1996, pp. 189-191
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Pharmacology & Pharmacy",Toxicology,"Environmental Sciences
Journal title
Environmental toxicology and pharmacology → ACNP
ISSN journal
13826689
Volume
2
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
189 - 191
Database
ISI
SICI code
1382-6689(1996)2:2-3<189:FHAAPM>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
In 43 from 222 men (19.4%) employed in a coking plant a higher than no rmal concentration of fetal hemoglobin (HbF) was found, whereas an ele vated level of HbF was detected in only two from 87 persons (2.3%) wor king in the cold rolling mill of the steel mill 'Huta Sendzimira', Kra kow, Poland. Subjects employed in the coking mill worked in a much mor e polluted atmosphere than those in the cold rolling mill. It is specu lated that synthesis of HbF map be a marker of the effect of unfavorab le working conditions on some susceptible persons.