PMID- 9857580
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19990125
LR  - 20161213
IS  - 1239-9736 (Print)
IS  - 1239-9736 (Linking)
VI  - 57
IP  - 4
DP  - 1998 Oct
TI  - Persistent organic pollutants in maternal blood plasma and breast milk from 
      Russian arctic populations.
PG  - 239-48
AB  - Under the auspices of Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), a 
      Russian-Norwegian co-operation project was established to assess the exposure of 
      delivering women to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Arctic areas of 
      Russia. In the period 1993-95 blood and breast milk samples were collected from 
      94 delivering women in Yamal and Tajmyr Autonomous Regions of Siberia. 
      Concentrations of chlorinated pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) 
      were determined by high resolution gas chromatography with electron capture 
      detection. The POP levels in maternal plasma among the non-indigenous women were 
      higher than the native population, especially in total PCB, HCHs 
      (hexachlorocyclohexanes) and the DDT-group. The dietary questionnaires showed 
      that the non-indigenous populations consumed considerably less local food items 
      like reindeer meat and fresh water fish. There was no correlation between local 
      food consumption and elevated levels of pollutants. Even if the indigenous groups 
      had lower concentrations of the most important pollutants than the non-indigenous 
      population, they were still higher than the levels measured in the Scandinavian 
      countries of the AMAP-study and up to levels of medical concern. The most 
      important sources of organic pollutants for the Russian Arctic populations of 
      Yamal and Tajmyr seems to be imported food from other areas of Russia and local 
      use of pesticides. It must be a high priority concern to further elucidate these 
      trends and initiate prophylactic measures for the exposed population groups.
FAU - Klopov, V
AU  - Klopov V
AD  - Regional Centre Monitoring of the Arctic, St. Petersburg, Russia.
FAU - Odland, J O
AU  - Odland JO
FAU - Burkow, I C
AU  - Burkow IC
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - Int J Circumpolar Health
JT  - International journal of circumpolar health
JID - 9713056
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Organic Chemicals)
RN  - 0 (Pesticides)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Air Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Animals
MH  - Arctic Regions
MH  - Data Collection
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Epidemiological Monitoring
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Incidence
MH  - Lethal Dose 50
MH  - Milk, Human/*chemistry
MH  - Organic Chemicals/*analysis/toxicity
MH  - Pesticides/*analysis/toxicity
MH  - Pregnancy/*blood
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - Russia/epidemiology
MH  - Sampling Studies
MH  - Statistics, Nonparametric
EDAT- 1998/12/19 00:00
MHDA- 1998/12/19 00:01
CRDT- 1998/12/19 00:00
PHST- 1998/12/19 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1998/12/19 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1998/12/19 00:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Circumpolar Health. 1998 Oct;57(4):239-48.