Geographic and Ethnic Variations in Serum Concentrations of Legacy Persistent Organic Pollutants among Men in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Arctic Russia
Varakina Y. Aksenov A. Lakhmanov D. Trofimova A. Korobitsyna R. Belova N. Kotsur D. Sorokina T. Grjibovski A.M. Popova L. Chashchin V. Odland J.Ø. Thomassen Y.
February-1 2022MDPI
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
2022#19Issue 3
The overwhelming majority of Arctic biomonitoring studies in humans include either pregnant or non-pregnant women of reproductive age while little attention is paid to toxic com-pounds concentrations in men. This study contributes with information of the present amounts of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in men living in Arctic Russia. We studied the serum concentrations of 11 polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners and 17 organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and some of their metabolites in samples collected from 92 adult men (mean age 43 years) from seven different settlements in Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO). The median concentrations of individual PCB congeners increased in the order PCB 183, PCB 180, PCB 118, PCB 138, PCB 153. The concentrations of o, p′-DDD, p, p′-DDD, aldrin, mirex and 1,2,3,5-TCB were in most cases below the quantification limit. The observed concentrations of PCBs and chlorinated pesticides were in the same range as those found in similar groups of women of these territories, but lower than of men in other Arctic countries. However, significant geographic differences between the settlements were observed with exceptionally high concentrations of PCBs in the Islands group. The highest serum ∑PCBs and β-HCH levels were observed in adult males aged 60–78 years. We found significant variations in serum concentrations of POPs across settlements and ethnic groups with exceptionally high concentrations of PCBs among the residents of the Arctic islands. At the same time, our findings suggest a considerable decrease in serum concentration of POPs over the last decade.
Biomonitoring , Indigenous peoples , Men , PCBs , Pesticides , Russian Arctic
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Arctic Biomonitoring Laboratory, Northern (Arctic) Federal University Named after M. V. Lomonosov, Naberezhnaya Severnoy Dvini 17, Arkhangelsk, 163002, Russian Federation
Laboratory of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Core Facility Center “Arktika”, Northern (Arctic) Federal University Named after M. V. Lomonosov, Naberezhnaya Severnoy Dvini 17, Arkhangelsk, 163002, Russian Federation
Northern State Medical University, Troitskiy Ave. 51, Arkhangelsk, 163000, Russian Federation
N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Naberezhnaya Severnoy Dvini 23, Arkhangelsk, 163000, Russian Federation
Department of Epidemiology and Modern Vaccination Technology, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Trubetskaya Str. 8-2, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov Medical University, Aktobe, 0300190, Kazakhstan
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Ecology, Northern (Arctic) Federal University Named after M. V. Lomonosov, Naberezhnaya Severnoy Dvini 17, Arkhangelsk, 163002, Russian Federation
North-Western State Medical University Named after I.I. Mechnikov, Kirochnaya ul. 41, Saint-Petersburg, 191015, Russian Federation
Institute of Ecology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Myasnitskaya Str. 20, Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation
Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, 7491, Norway
Department of General Hygiene, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Trubetskaya Str. 8-2, Moscow, 119992, Russian Federation
National Institute of Occupational Health, Gydas vei 8, Oslo, N-0304, Norway
Arctic Biomonitoring Laboratory
Laboratory of Environmental Analytical Chemistry
Northern State Medical University
N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research
Department of Epidemiology and Modern Vaccination Technology
West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov Medical University
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Ecology
North-Western State Medical University Named after I.I. Mechnikov
Institute of Ecology
Department of Public Health and Nursing
Department of General Hygiene
National Institute of Occupational Health
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