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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Lead and Cadmium (Pb, Cd) Levels Determination in the Blood of the Gasoline Station Workers

Aamal Muhsen Kadhum1* ,  Ali S. Moalif1 ,  Noor Muhsen Jawad2
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1 Medical Laboratories Techniques Department, Al-Mustaqbal University College, Hillah – 51001, Babylon, Iraq
2 Pharmacy Department, Al-Mustaqbal University College, Hillah – 51001, Babylon, Iraq
AJWEP 2023, 20(5), 65–69; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW230066
Received: 4 May 2022 | Revised: 23 June 2022 | Accepted: 23 June 2022 | Published online: 23 June 2022
© 2022 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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Abstract

The inhalation of hazardous fumes from lead containing gasoline in the workplace has become a major public health concern. These gases include extremely dangerous poisons that can induce aberrant changes in the functioning of a variety of essential organs. The current study aimed to estimate the concentration of blood lead level (BLLs) and blood cadmium level in male working gasoline station and compared with healthy people. An atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS) was used to measure cadmium and lead levels in the blood. The findings of this investigation revealed that there was significant increase in age (P-value = 0.002), mean age of worker station (32.0 ± 11.99) while in the control group (22.85 ± 2.18), the result of blood lead level shown (1.92 ±1.54) in gasoline station while in the control group (1.63 ±0.04) no significant differences was observed (P-value = 0.238). The main of blood cadmium level was 0.005 ±0.0069 in the gasoline station while in the control group (0.069 ±0.011) no significant differences were observed (P- value = 0.5), the smokers (n = 13) has (P > 0.426) mean BLL (21.60 ± 12.88 μg/dL), while non-smoking workers (n = 8) the BLL mean was 15.52 ± 6.80 μg/dL. The results also show that there is a correlation between age and blood lead level while no correlation was observed in blood cadmium level.

Keywords
Gasoline worker
lead toxicity
cadmium
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