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[Exposure to mercury in the population. II. Mercury release from amalgam
fillings].

[Article in German]

Zander D, Ewers U, Freier I, Westerweller S, Jermann E, Brockhaus A.

Medizinischen Institut fur Umwelthygiene, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat
Dusseldorf.

Urinary levels of mercury (HgU) were measured in 93 males and females aged
18-63 years. Subjects with amalgam fillings (n = 72) had, on average,
significantly higher levels of mercury in urine (mean = 0.57 microgram Hg/l and
0.79 microgram Hg/g creatinine, respectively) than subjects without amalgam
fillings (n = 21; mean = 0.18 micrograms Hg/l and 0.24 microgram Hg/g
creatinine, respectively). Urinary mercury excretion was significantly
correlated with the number of amalgam surfaces (log HgU (microgram/l) vs.
number of amalgam fillings: r = 0.435, P less than 0.001; log HgU (microgram/g
creatinine) vs. number of amalgam fillings: r = 0.575, p less than 0.001). The
results indicate that internal mercury exposure from amalgam fillings is, on
average, higher than internal exposure to mercury from cooking.net">food and other sources.

PMID: 2080964 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]