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[Assessment of health risk due to cadmium contaminated house gardens]
R W Scholz1, H J Schmitt, W Vollmer
1Institut für Didaktik der Mathematik Universität Bielefeld.
Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen
|April 1, 1990
Abstract:
An epidemiological survey was conducted on the cadmium intoxication of 132 residents living on former sewage fields. Besides 'global biological monitoring', the relation between the cadmium secretion in urine and the load of cadmium of the kitchen gardens and flower gardens was analysed. There were significant correlations between the cadmium concentration of the residents' garden soil and their daily urine secretion, particularly for older nonsmokers who admitted "at least occasional consumption" of products from their gardens. The value of applying non-parametric correlation coefficients is proven.