Low level exposure to cadmium and early kidney damage: the OSCAR study

Occupational and Environmental Medicine - Tập 57 Số 10 - Trang 668-672 - 2000
L Järup1, Lennart Hellström1, Tobias Alfvén1, Margareta D Carlsson1, Anders Grubb1, Bodil Persson1, Conny Pettersson1, Gunnar Spång1, Andrejs Schütz1, Carl‐Gustaf Elinder1
1Department of Environmental Health, Stockholm, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, bInstitute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, cDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK, dDepartment of Public Health, County Council of Kalmar, Oskarshamn, Sweden, eKalmar University, Department of Natural Sciences, Kalmar, Sweden, fLocal Government, Environmental Protection Board, Mönsterås, Sweden, gDepartment of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, hDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, iCentre for Public Health Sciences, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Linköping, Sweden, jPrimary Health Care Unit, Mönsterås, Sweden, kIndustrial Health Care Unit, Hälsan, Oskarshamn, Sweden, lDepartment of Renal Medicine at Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden

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OBJECTIVES

To study the dose-response relation between cadmium dose and renal tubular damage in a population of workers and people environmentally or occupationally exposed to low concentrations of cadmium.

METHODS

Early kidney damage in 1021 people, occupationally or environmentally exposed to cadmium, was assessed from cadmium in urine to estimate dose, and protein HC (α1-microglobulin) in urine to assess tubular proteinuria.

RESULTS

There was an age and sex adjusted correlation between cadmium in urine and urinary protein HC. The prevalence of tubular proteinuria ranged from 5% among unexposed people to 50% in the most exposed group. The corresponding prevalence odds ratio was 6.0 (95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.6 to 22) for the highest exposure group, adjusted for age and sex. Multiple logistic regression analysis showed an increasing prevalence of tubular proteinuria with urinary cadmium as well as with age. After adjustment to the mean age of the study population (53 years), the results show an increased prevalence of 10% tubular proteinuria (taking into account a background prevalence of 5%) at a urinary cadmium concentration of 1.0 nmol/mmol creatinine.

CONCLUSION

Renal tubular damage due to exposure to cadmium develops at lower levels of cadmium body burden than previously anticipated.

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Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Tập 57 Số 10

668-672

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