Researchers from the ibs.GRANADA awarded for a study that determines the presence of heavy metals in the Andalusian population
Researchers from ibs.GRANADA have been awarded by CIBERESP for their oral presentation "Exposure to mixtures of heavy metals and metalloids in the adult population of Andalusia: analysis in a sub-cohort of the EPIC study", the result of an EASP research project, managed by FIBAO and led by Miguel Rodriguez Barranco, a member of the Cancer Epidemiology research group at ibs.GRANADA and research coordinator of the Granada cancer registry.
The objective of the study is to determine the exposure to 15 heavy metals and metalloids in the adult population of Andalusia, as well as to analyze the correlation between them and to characterize exposure profiles to mixtures of metals. The metals analyzed were 15 elements (Be, V, Cr, Mn, Co, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Mo, Cd, Sb, W, Hg and Pb), with 486 individuals participating with a mean age of 46 years.
One of the conclusions of the study is that almost half of the study subjects had high levels in a combination of between 4 and 10 elements, highlighting the importance of considering exposure to mixtures of contaminants for risk assessment.
Oral communication has been presented by Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco (EASP, CIBERESP, ibs.GRANADA), Jose Luis Gómez-Ariza (University of Huelva), Tamara García-Barrera (University of Huelva), Elena Salamanca-Fernández (EASP, CIBERESP , ibs.GRANADA), Jose Juan Jiménez-Moleón (UGR, CIBERESP, ibs.GRANADA), Antonio Agudo (Catalan Institute of Oncology) and Maria José Sánchez (EASP, CIBERESP, ibs.GRANADA).
This communication will also form part of the 7 best-evaluated and collaborative oral communications, which will be presented at the spontaneous table of the CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP) at the XXXVII Annual Meeting of the SEE, XIV Congress of APE and XVIII Congress SESPAS, to be held in September in Oviedo.
