Toxic effects due to exposure heavy metals and increased health risk assessment (leukemia)

Methaq hadi Lafta; Arghavan Afra; Indrajit Patra; Abduladheem Turki Jalil; Mohammad Javad Mohammadi; Aiman Mohammed Baqir Al-Dhalimy; Shukhrat Ziyadullaev; Fatemeh Kiani; Hafez Ajam Ekrami; Parisa Asban

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Toxic effects due to exposure heavy metals and increased health risk assessment (leukemia)

Methaq hadi Lafta , Arghavan Afra , Indrajit Patra , Abduladheem Turki Jalil , Mohammad Javad Mohammadi , Aiman Mohammed Baqir Al-Dhalimy , Shukhrat Ziyadullaev , Fatemeh Kiani , Hafez Ajam Ekrami and Parisa Asban

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From the journal Reviews on Environmental Health Volume 39 Issue 2

Abstract

Heavy metals (HM) are among the elements that are rare in nature and threaten human health, animals, and the environment. Fix sources including (power plants, industries, homes) and mobile sources include (cars and motorcycles) are the main sources production and emission of HM. It is important to understand the main information about sources of emission, chemical processes (reactions, oxidation, and leaching), and how they precipitate. The aim of this study was to evaluation an increased risk of leukemia due to exposure to HM. In this article narrative, the first literature search was performed with 580 articles according to different databases: Elsevier, PubMed, Web of science, Spring, and Google Scholar databases. 70 articles were included in the analysis process. Finally, 8 full-text articles were selected in this research. The search was restricted to English-language papers published between 2000 and 2021. In final stage literature, there is a notable health effect (carcinogenic) because of exposure to heavy metals. According to the results of this research natural procedures and human activities (industrial processes, car exhaust, and cigarette smoke) are the most important of ways that heavy metals can enter the natural cycle. Air, food, soil, water, and groundwater are the main sources of heavy metals that can cause severe disorders in the human body. After entering the body through ingestion heavy metals produce stable bio-toxic compounds. These compounds by disrupting biological processes, interrupt the body’s functions and cause various cancers in the human body. The results of this study can help to politicians for make comprehensive decisions to solve the problem and increase public awareness of the use of protective equipment.

Keywords: carcinogenic; health; heavy mental; human; leukemia

Corresponding author: Parisa Asban, Student of Research Committee, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran, Phone: +989372152538, E-mail: asbann.1394@gmail.com; Mohammad Javad Mohammadi, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health and Environmental Technologies Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran; and Air Pollution and Respiratory Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran, E-mail: javad.sam200@gmail.com

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences for providing necessary facilities to perform this research.

Research funding: This work wasn’t financially supported.
Author contributions: MH-L, AA, IP, AT-J, M-JM, A-MB-A, SZ, FK, HA-K, and PA were principal investigators of the study and drafted the manuscript. MH-L, M-JM, and PA were advisors of the study. MH-L, AA, IP, AT-J, M-JM, A-MB-A, SZ, FK, HA-K, and PA performed the statistical analysis. All authors contributed to the design and data analysis and assisted in the preparation of the final version of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Informed consent: Not applicable.
Ethical approval: The conducted research is not related to either human or animal use.
Disclosure statement: No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Consent to participate: ‘Not applicable’ for that specific section.

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Received: 2022-11-17

Accepted: 2022-12-11

Published Online: 2022-12-29

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