Health effects of uranium: new research findings

Brugge, Doug; Buchner, Virginia

doi:10.1515/reveh.2011.032

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“…Families who neither drink nor cook with their water (Group I) are not at risk of exposure to uranium, as absorption through skin is minimal [46]. Families who still cook with their well water, despite its unpleasant taste (Group II), are most at risk of consuming water with unsafe uranium concentrations.…”

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“…These valley fill sediments could have eroded from the uranium bearing upland bedrock, as is the case elsewhere in Montana [46]. Other possible uranium sources may be from the Jurassic Morrison Formation or the Fort Union Formation.…”

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“…Exposure can increase cancer risk and lead to liver damage [44]. Additional documented health outcomes of concern include effects on the brain, diminished bone growth, DNA damage and developmental and reproductive effects [45,46]. The health risks from uranium in drinking water are greatest for infants and young children, who can suffer lasting damage from exposure at critical times in their growth [47].…”

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“…Rensing av uran etter later store mengder forurenset vann og giftige avfallsmaterialer som er svakt radioaktive. Uran er et giftig metall som skader nyrene og kan gi genskader og utviklingsforstyr relser (25).…”

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“…Subsequently, if a sufficiently large group of workers can be followed-up in the long-term, associations between these biomarkers and risks of disease could be quantified. This would be useful (1) to determine their predictive value for risk quantification and (2) to help translate biological responses observed in many experimental studies (Brugge and Buchner 2011) into health risk estimates. Molecular epidemiology might thus lead to the identification or validation of new biomarkers useful for the surveillance of workers occupationally exposed to uranium.…”

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Concerted Uranium Research in Europe (CURE): toward a collaborative project integrating dosimetry, epidemiology and radiobiology to study the effects of occupational uranium exposure

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The potential health impacts of chronic exposures to uranium, as they occur in occupational settings, are not well characterized. Most epidemiological studies have been limited by small sample sizes, and a lack of harmonization of methods used to quantify radiation doses resulting from uranium exposure. Experimental studies have shown that uranium has biological effects, but their implications for human health are not clear. New studies that would combine the strengths of large, well-designed epidemiological datasets with those of state-of-the-art biological methods would help improve the characterization of the biological and health effects of occupational uranium exposure. The aim of the European Commission concerted action CURE (Concerted Uranium Research in Europe) was to develop protocols for such a future collaborative research project, in which dosimetry, epidemiology and biology would be integrated to better characterize the effects of occupational uranium exposure. These protocols were developed from existing European cohorts of workers exposed to uranium together with expertise in epidemiology, biology and dosimetry of CURE partner institutions. The preparatory work of CURE should allow a large scale collaborative project to be launched, in order to better characterize the effects of uranium exposure and more generally of alpha particles and low doses of ionizing radiation.

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Health effects of uranium: new research findings

Cited by 169 publications

References 95 publications

Potential Health Risks from Uranium in Home Well Water: An Investigation by the Apsaalooke (Crow) Tribal Research Group

Potential Health Risks from Uranium in Home Well Water: An Investigation by the Apsaalooke (Crow) Tribal Research Group

Enighet om en forbudsavtale mot atomvåpen

Concerted Uranium Research in Europe (CURE): toward a collaborative project integrating dosimetry, epidemiology and radiobiology to study the effects of occupational uranium exposure

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