Human health risk assessment and riskiest heavy metal origin identification in urban soils of Yerevan, Armenia

Tepanosyan, Gevorg; Sahakyan, Lilit; Belyaeva, Olga; Maghakyan, Nairuhi; Saghatelyan, Armen

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.06.108

Cited by 122 publications

(63 citation statements)

References 29 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…in this study. Single-factor assessment is usually expressed as a pollution index, which is defined as the following equations [27][28][29][30]:…”

Section: X>risk Intervention Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

Heavy Metals Pollution Characteristics and Health Risk Assessment of Farmland Soils and Agricultural Products in a Mining Area of Henan Province, China

Zhang¹,

He²,

Zhao³

et al. 2020

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The development of mineral resources has promoted the rapid development of the social economy. However, mining and mineral processing are regarded as a primary source of heavy metals contamination in the environment due to activities of mineral excavation, ore transportation, smelting, and refining [1][2][3][4][5]. Among all mining wastes, tailings are a solid waste with especially high toxic heavy metals produced in the process of mining, mineral processing and smelting, which are considered the greatest threat to ecological stability due Pol. AbstractThis research focused on soil contamination and the health risks around a mining area in Henan Province of China. Heavy metals contents in farmland soils and agricultural products were analyzed. The results showed that the soils in the mining area had been polluted by heavy metals to different degrees, whereas the average concentrations of heavy metals in farmland soils had exceeded the background value of Henan Province. Cd was the main pollutant element in soils. Agricultural products grown on farmland near the mining area were heavily polluted by Cd and Pb and slightly polluted by Cr. Furthermore, the health risk to local inhabitants via food ingestion was assessed based on the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) health risk assessment model. The results showed that the local inhabitants experience high potential health risks by intake of Cd and Pb via consumption of these vegetables. Leafy vegetables had the highest health risks of all agricultural products, whether adults or children, suggesting high health risks by consuming the contaminated agricultural products. Moreover, because children were more sensitively affected by heavy metals from food ingestion, we should pay more attention to monitoring children's health in such areas.

show abstract

“…in this study. Single-factor assessment is usually expressed as a pollution index, which is defined as the following equations [27][28][29][30]:…”

Section: X>risk Intervention Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

Heavy Metals Pollution Characteristics and Health Risk Assessment of Farmland Soils and Agricultural Products in a Mining Area of Henan Province, China

Zhang¹,

He²,

Zhao³

et al. 2020

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The redistribution of heavy metals in urban areas is known to be strongly correlated with historical pollution, the best example in this regard being the lead contamination. Recent evidence [31,32] indicates that urban soils have been moderately to highly polluted by Cd, Zn, Cu, and Pb originating in current industrial activities (e.g. steel industry).…”

Section: • T T Th H Herap Py Y Ymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, topsoils near the smelting plants of molybdenum concentrate have had moderately to extremely high contamination levels for Mo and Pb. When it comes to urban public places, several studies [31][32][33] have showed that a site polluted by metals (e.g. Pb, Zn, Ni, As, and Mo) could pose a high noncarcinogenic health risk, or, on the contrary, the noncarcinogenic and carcinogenic risks could be insignificant or within acceptable limits, depending on the contamination degree and land use.…”

Section: • T T Th H Herap Py Y Ymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pb, Zn, Ni, As, and Mo) could pose a high noncarcinogenic health risk, or, on the contrary, the noncarcinogenic and carcinogenic risks could be insignificant or within acceptable limits, depending on the contamination degree and land use. On the other hand, in children, the most sensitive population, the risk assessment showed that they are at high multielemental noncarcinogenic risk [32].…”

Section: • T T Th H Herap Py Y Ymentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Heavy Metal Pollutome and Microbial Resistome Reciprocal Interaction and Its Impact on Human and Animal Matrices

Spînu¹,

Gurzău²,

Şandru³

et al. 2018

Antibiotic Use in Animals

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The chapter aims to reveal the complex relationships between antibiotic resistance in bacteria and heavy metal pollution at the human/animal interface. The antibiotic resistance is a continuously growing threat for both people and animals. Animals could represent a source for zoonotic microbial contamination of humans as subject for consumption and also as contacts (companion, sports, zoo animals, etc.). Antimicrobial treatments in animals, if uncontrolled or injudicious, could raise antibiotic-resistant strains to be transferred to humans where they can cause even more severe diseases. Moreover, the environment has its own microbiome, including some nonpathogenic but antibioticresistant species. Human industrial activities are carried out in certain environments, with particular microbiomes and also where animals bearing antibiotic-resistant bacteria are present. Thus, the degree of pollution with heavy metals, as part of the global pollutants to the environment, could impact on the bacteria and their resistome with severe consequences for inhabitants of the area.

show abstract

“…Heavy metal pollution levels of soils in Armenia were evaluated using the index of pollution and factor of enrichment (Tepanosyan et al, 2017). In addition, the study also addressed associated possible health risk using a model from the Environmental Protection Agency of the United…”

Section: Human Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment

Charabi

Choudri

Ahmed

2018

Water Environment Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The review of literature in this paper includes the assessment of risk process and addresses issues of both human as well as ecological receptors. The main objective of this review is to highlight an overview of the scientific research literature published in year 2017. The review is focused on assessment of risk on human and ecology published in the literature such as analysis, methodology, interpretation, management, uncertainty, policy and regulatory guidance. The review on ecological and human health risk assessment is divided into two main sections namely ecological and human health. The focus of the review is on the risk assessment process as it is applied to human health, ecoological systems, site investigation, aspects of remediation as well as natural resources.

show abstract

Human health risk assessment and riskiest heavy metal origin identification in urban soils of Yerevan, Armenia

Cited by 122 publications

References 29 publications

Heavy Metals Pollution Characteristics and Health Risk Assessment of Farmland Soils and Agricultural Products in a Mining Area of Henan Province, China

Heavy Metals Pollution Characteristics and Health Risk Assessment of Farmland Soils and Agricultural Products in a Mining Area of Henan Province, China

Heavy Metal Pollutome and Microbial Resistome Reciprocal Interaction and Its Impact on Human and Animal Matrices

Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About