Environmental exposure to cadmium: Health risk assessment and its associations with hypertension and renal dysfunction
Lei Huang
Nanjing University
Focused on environmental risk analysis and management, human health risk assessment and ecological safety assessment, and have rich experience in risk mechanism analysis, risk assessment and control. Published nearly 100 pieces of paper in recent five years. Some study related to air pollution or risk perception analysis published in the journal of PNAS, EHP, EST, ACP, Scientific Report and AE etc. The principal of five NSFC funding and two national important technology projects (863 plan). As a visiting scholar of Columbia University and Emory University, have a long term of cooperation with these two universities in risk study.
Abstract
We estimated the risk level caused by Cd exposure through various pathways and examined the relationship between urinary cadmium (UCd) and hypertension and renal dysfunction at low levels （1.3±1.5 mg/kg creatinine）in a... [ view full abstract ]
Authors
- Lei Huang (Nanjing University)
- Hong Sun (Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Zhen Ding (Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
Topic Area
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Session
OS-1C » Health Risk A (11:45 - Monday, 15th August, Dillon Theatre)
