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. 1983 Aug;40(3):301-4.
doi: 10.1136/oem.40.3.301.

Aluminium in the blood and urine of industrially exposed workers

B Sjögren, I Lundberg, V Lidums

Aluminium in the blood and urine of industrially exposed workers

B Sjögren et al. Br J Ind Med. 1983 Aug.

Abstract

Blood and urine aluminium concentrations were studied in industrially exposed workers using electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry. Welders and workers making aluminium powder and aluminium sulphate had higher concentrations in blood and urine than non-exposed referents. Workers in the electrolytic production of aluminium had higher urine but not blood concentrations than the referents. Thus aluminium was found to be absorbed by all industrially exposed workers. Blood concentrations were lower than those presumably associated with aluminium induced encephalopathy in patients receiving dialysis.

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