Peripheral neurotoxicity in workers exposed to inorganic mercury compounds
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Peripheral neurotoxicity in workers exposed to inorganic mercury compounds
Arch Environ Health.
1987 Jul-Aug.
Abstract
Nerve conduction velocity (NCV) of the median motor, median sensory, and sural nerves was assessed in 16 workers chronically exposed to various inorganic mercury compounds. Exposed workers were compared with an unexposed control group using t test analyses. Slowing of the median motor nerve NCV was found, which was correlated with both increased levels of mercury in blood and urine, and with increased number of neurologic symptoms. Sensitive evaluation of neural function was found to be practical and informative for investigating mercury toxicity. Such evaluation can help determine safe mercury levels at the workplace.
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