Dietary mineral intakes for Ukrainian subjects living areas contaminated by the Chernobyl accident

• Published in: BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ON TRACE ELEMENTS Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 306 - 310
• Main Authors: Arae, Hideki, SHIRAISHI, Kunio, Ayama, Kyoko, TSIGANKOV, Nikolay Y., KORZUN, Vitaly N., LOS, Ivan P., SAHOO, Sarata Kumar, KO, Susumu, ZAMOSTYAN, Pavlo V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Osaka Japan Society for Biomedical Research on Trace Elements 2005; Japan Science and Technology Agency
• Subjects: Chernobyl accident; dietary intake; health effects; Mass spectrometry; mineral; Nuclear power plants; Radioactive fallout; Ukrainian
• ISSN: 0916-717X; 1880-1404
• DOI: 10.11299/brte.16.306

Daily intakes of twelve elements in Ukrainian subjects were estimated in relation to the health effects on habitants after the Chernobyl accident. Total diets were collected from one hundred twenty-three locations for children and adult males by a duplicate portion method. Elements were determined by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) or inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Geometric mean and median (in parentheses) of daily intake in Ukrainians are as follows: Co 10.3 (9.83) μg; Cu 0.688 (0.701) mg; Zn 5.73 (5.44) mg; Mn 2.26 (2.28) mg; Fe 8.15 (7.25) mg; Rb 2.74 (2.58) mg; Mg 0.210 (0.219) g; Ca 0.584 (0.606) g; P 0.839 (0.815) g; K 2.80 (2.75) g; and Na 3.76 (3.57) g. The intakes of Cu, Mn, and Zn in Ukrainians were lower than those of Japanese and worldwide reported values.