Lead Poisoning: a 12-year Report from North East of Iran

Authors

  • Bita Dadpour Associate Professor, Medical Toxicology Research Center, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
  • Mahdieh Jafari Shahroudi Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
  • Mona Najaf Najafi Assistant Professor, Social Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
  • Samaneh Silakhori Clinical Toxicology Department, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
  • Shahrad Tajoddini Assistant Professor, Kerman Neuroscience Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
Abstract:

Background: Lead poisoning is an issue of concern in developing countries and high levels of lead in blood could be resulted following occupational and environmental exposures. Several reports have raised concerns on the increasing prevalence of lead intoxication among opioid addicts. This study investigated the clinical manifestations and demographic data of subjects who were diagnosed with lead poisoning and also possible correlations of job type and opium abuse with lead poisoning. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on 82 patients admitted to Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad, from 2004 to 2016 with the diagnosis of lead poisoning. Demographic information, clinical signs and symptoms, as well as, hematological and biochemical profiles and their possible correlations were investigated. Opium-addiction status was judged based on patient self-report. Results: In this study, 82 patients were admitted to Toxicology Department. Patients’ age ranged between 19 and 81 years old (mean ±SD: 42.2±14.90) and 78 patients were male (95.1%). With regard to the occupational exposure, 29 individuals (35.4%) had occupational risk factors for lead poisoning; however, no significant relation was found between the type of occupation and blood lead level (p=0.95). Moreover, 43 individuals (52.4%) were opioid-addicted but opioid addiction was not significantly correlated with blood lead level (p=0.91). Among all, 70 individuals (85.4%) were anemic and with increasing blood lead level, the levels of Hb (p= 0.011, r= -0.279) and Hct (p=0.003, r= -0.332) showed significant decrease. Conclusion: Though blood lead level was not significantly correlated with opioid addiction, but most of patients were opioid addicts. Apparently, public awareness and health-care-providers’ knowledge should be improved about the potential hazardous effects of using adulterated opium.

Upgrade to premium to download articles

Sign up to access the full text

Already have an account?login

similar resources

Anemia, Iron Deficiency Anemia and Lead Poisoning in Children with Opioid Toxicity: A Study in North East of Iran

Background: Opium is a new source of lead and considered as a cause of lead poisoning. As anemia and lead poisoning affect growth and behavior negatively, their timely prevention, diagnosis, and treatment are essential. The aim of thi study is evaluation of the prevalence of anemia, iron deficiency anemia, and lead poisoning in children with opioid toxicity. Materials and Methods: In this cr...

full text

A ONE-YEAR REPORT OF THE COUNTRY\'S MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM IN A 22,000 POPULATED REGION OF NORTH-EAST IRAN

This study began in December, 19R9, and continued for one year. 245 cases, 46.5% from urban areas and 53.5% from rural areas, were followed-up. 1 3.5% were diagnosed by general physicians and receiving drugs accordingly before the program. 30.2% were properly diagnosed, but they did not receive reasonable drugs and 56.3% were neither properly diagnosed nor did they receive reasonable treatm...

full text

(revitalizing silk road corridor in the region (north east of iran

introruction khawf in(iran)-herat and mazaresharif and shirkhan bandar in (afghanistan)-dushanbe in (tajikistan)_(kirgizstan)-kashghar in(china) project railway network is under construction that it is as a significant corridor for revitalizing silk road corridor in the region .at the present there are three different gauge in the region central asia with 1,520 mm gauge and turkey-islamic repu...

15 صفحه اول

Mushroom Poisoning in North-East Assam. Report of 15 Cases

some of them are poisonous and are often very difficult to distinguish from the edible ones and cause many fatalities among the consumers from time to time. The earliest record of fatal poisoning dates back over two thousand years and many eminent people figured prominently among the victims. It occurred in the family of the Greek poet Euripides (5th century B.C.) and according to Pliny, the La...

full text

Neonatal Infections: a 5-Year Analysis in a Neonatal Care Unit in North East of Iran

Background: Neonatal infections are one of the major causes of death in Iran. Since identifying the risk factors, types, site, bacterial causes, and case fatality rate of an infection can be effective in selecting preventive and therapeutic methods, and appropriate supportive measures, this study aimed to investigate the aforementioned factors in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Ghaem...

full text

Lead Poisoning in Opium Abusers: A Five-year Retrospective Study

Background and purpose: Lead is a metal present in nature that does not play a role in physiological processes of the body. Today, the use of lead in many materials and industries causes environmental contamination. But, the prevalence is unclear among people and the concentration of lead in the blood has never been tested in general .This study was conducted to compare clinical observations an...

full text

My Resources

Save resource for easier access later

Save to my library Already added to my library

{@ msg_add @}


Journal title

volume 25  issue 5

pages  446- 455

publication date 2018-09-01

By following a journal you will be notified via email when a new issue of this journal is published.

Hosted on Doprax cloud platform doprax.com

copyright © 2015-2023