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Into The Department of Prevention of USL 8 of Arezzo performed a biological monitoring of 23 residents in the area of ??S. Zeno, to assess exposure to environmental pollutants, especially heavy metals and other environmental contaminants

Epidemiological study in the area between Civitella in Val di Chiana, Quarata and San Zeno

Into Arezzo, 14 November 2013 – No association cause – effect overt but alarming indications , but still to be verified, for cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases in males and females . These are the first elements that emerged from the examination of the third epidemiological study currently underway in area between Civitella in Val di Chiana , Quarata and San Zeno interested factories at risk , incinerator ee highway , where almost 50,000 inhabitants. The partial results of the study called “Life-Hia21 ”
whose end ‘was set for the end of next year, were examined during a forum held at the hospital in Arezzo .

The Department of Prevention the USL 8 of Arezzo has performed a biological monitoring of 23 residents in the area of ??S. Zeno, for assessing exposure to environmental pollutants , in particular heavy metals and other environmental contaminants. The results show for the residents in this area average values ??for chromium and cobalt more ‘higher than those detected in other areas of study (Civitella, Arezzo and Casentino) for cadmium were observed average values ??more’ higher than in Arezzo and Casentino for the other metals were not observed
increases compared to Arezzo and Civitella.

The same study is performing the analysis of dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls in soils that currently would be below the limits of law and also lower than surveys conducted in other countries. In the study area in the past decade have been identified 50,871 residents in 11,763 addresses, which have been shown on the map
territorial.

The analyzes carried out to date have highlighted some important elements and in particular that exposures to various sources need to be considered in a comprehensive manner in order to understand the relationship between cumulative exposure over time and effects on health but would still showed signs related to cardiovascular disease for men and respiratory those for women.

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