Sentences with phrase «higher concentrations of lead»

[10] Many of the foods highlighted in the study as having higher concentrations of lead are also foods that people consume way more of than salt.

Vulture's migratory movements meant they couldn't be sampled across seasons, but older vultures tended to have higher concentrations of lead, suggesting that older, more dominant individuals exclude younger birds from foraging on carcasses.

«Griffon vultures are exposed to high concentrations of lead in their diets.»

With Matcha, since the whole leaf is consumed, there is a higher concentration of lead.

Not exact matches

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Klaus Muller, manager of the Federation of German Consumer Organizations, for example, notes that «the takeover of RWE's stakes in Innogy by EON will lead to a higher concentration of utilities in the German energy market.»

The typical desk contains about 25,000 germs per square inch, making it the highest concentration of germs in an office; however, the leading hotspot of workplace germs is closely followed by break room faucet handles, microwave handles, refrigerator door handles, water fountain buttons, and vending machine buttons.

The Baltic region in Europe has seen widespread cryptocurrency adoption in the last few years, including the fact that it has a high concentration of Bitcoin full nodes: Lithuania leads here, with 66 nodes — a large amount in proportion to the size of the country.

«The results of the tests I initiated show that the drinking water in one of the social housing homes has lead concentration levels that are too high,» said Rice.

Many researchers feel that consuming such a high concentration (there's usually only a small amount of gluten in a wheat - based food) could lead to widespread inflammation by oversaturating the body with gluten.

Because of the high concentration of exports coming from only a few countries, the international rice market is vulnerable to disruptions in supply from major exporting countries, leading to higher world prices.

The result: the more products that parents used on their babies, the higher the concentrations of phthalates found in their urine, leading to the hypothesis that phthalates enter children's bodies not only when substances containing this chemical enter through their mouths but also through their skin.

High concentrations of vitamin A may lead to hypervitaminosis A. Talk with your doctor about when you can introduce meats to your baby.

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Finally a recent study discovered that high intake of sugar can lead to poor concentration in older children.

And the lead concentration of the paint in homes built before 1950 is likely to be higher than in a «newer» old house.

Even today, deteriorating lead - based paint in homes can lead to high (and unsafe) concentrations of lead in house dust.

Ahead of the 2016 polls, the voter distribution shows that the Greater Accra Region leads with the highest concentration of registered voters, followed by the Ashanti and Eastern Regions.

The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene previously took samples from 235 and 233 East Fifth Street and 514 East 12th Street managed by Brookhill Properties, the company owned by Toledano, and found that the concentrations of lead dust far exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency's hazard standard, with the lead concentration as high as 15 times what is legally allowed in the building at 233 East Fifth Street.

Syracuse and parts of Onondaga County have some of the highest concentrations of childhood lead poisoning cases in New York state.

However, the heavy metal of which the highest concentration was found in the birds was lead: in 42.22 μg / dl (micrograms per decilitre) for wild populations, a figure significantly higher than the concentration of the metal in the individuals rescued.

«The concentration of silica is very high at the centerlines of these halos,» said Jens Frydenvang, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Copenhagen and lead author of the paper.

«My concern is that the concentration in Brazilian Blowout is too high,» said Dr. Nonhlanhla P. Khumalo, a professor of dermatology at the University of Cape Town and the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital who is leading the study.

«These releases could lead to a higher short - term concentration of certain pollutants in the air, soil and surface water bodies where the meltwater runs to,» worries Nazarenko.

Data from the new ice core array illustrates that Antarctic lead concentrations reached a peak in 1900 and remained high until the late 1920s, with brief declines during the Great Depression and the end of World War II.

Concentrations across the Antarctic continent have since declined, but still are about four-fold higher than before industrialization, despite the phase out of leaded gasoline and other mitigation efforts in many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, the report states.

«Methane concentrations in drinking water were much higher if the homeowner was near an active gas well,» explains environmental scientist Robert Jackson of Duke University, who led the study published online May 9 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A high concentration of CCN generally leads to the formation of clouds with a high concentration of small droplets; whereas fewer CCN lead to clouds with few large droplets.

It leads the nation in patent applications because of the high concentration of high - tech research institutes, including the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW).

Different versions of genes at each location can lead to higher or lower protein concentration in soybean.

«The key is when you arrived, whether you were wearing a respirator or not, how long you were there and how high the concentrations were there that could lead to effects,» Lioy says of the rescue personnel.

Washington State University research professor Chuck Benbrook led a team that found organic milk contains significantly higher concentrations of heart - healthy fatty acids compared to milk from cows on conventionally managed dairy farms.

A team led by a Washington State University researcher has found that organic milk contains significantly higher concentrations of heart - healthy fatty acids compared to milk from cows on conventionally managed dairy farms.

Record emissions of carbon dioxide mean atmospheric concentrations have reached levels that lead to the highest temperature increases

A research group led by Junichi Isoya, professor emeritus, University of Tsukuba and Tokuyuki Teraji, principal researcher, Optical and Electronic Materials Unit, NIMS, has successfully fabricated for the first time in the world single - photon sources of SiV (silicon vacancy) centers — one of the color centers in diamond during the growth of thin film diamond, which have high purity and crystalline quality — by introducing them at extremely low concentrations.

In this study in Timothy grass, researchers led by environmental health scientist Christine Rogers of the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) determined the interactive effects of CO2 and ozone at projected higher levels on pollen production and concentrations of a Timothy grass pollen protein that is a major human allergen.

After more than six years of research, the research team led by María Soengas, head of CNIO's Melanoma Group, showed that RAB7 acts as an orchestra director, determining the fate of melanoma cells: at high concentrations of RAB7, cellular autodigestion is very active, and this allows tumor cells to obtain energy, prevent the accumulation of toxic components and thus divide and proliferate; when RAB7 is reduced, cells use endosomes to recycle metastatic proteins, favouring their dispersal throughout the body.

They found that the local concentration of catalytic product helping fuel their movement leads to a reversal of the direction of the collective movement of nanomotors, provided that they are in high enough concentration.

The consequences of bullying are serious and extract a huge toll on physical health (leading to migraines, sleeplessness, high blood pressure, and loss of appetite), emotional health (leading to anxiety, depression, irritability, family conflict, substance abuse, and thoughts of suicide), and productivity (due to impaired concentration, low morale, absenteeism, and staff turnover).

The researchers, led by Sara Adar, John Searle Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, and Joel Kaufman, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington, found that higher concentrations of fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) were linked to a faster thickening of the inner two layers of the common carotid artery, an important blood vessel that provides blood to the head, neck, and brain.

However, the health of the entire population pays a high price: substitution of gasoline for ethanol leads to a 30 % increase in the atmospheric concentration of ultrafine particulate matter, which consists of particles with a diameter of less than 50 nanometers (nm).

Of the monitoring sites, Davenport had the highest PM2.5 concentration — although within federal air - quality standards — with the highest iron, zinc, and lead concentrations, the data showed.

«We detected the frequent presence of hazardous elements, such as bromine, cadmium, mercury and lead, in very high concentrations in some cases,» says Dr. Andrew Turner, co-author of the study, based at the University of Plymouth, UK.

«There can be different combinations of materials that can be used in these two layers that can lead to higher efficiencies at lower concentrations,» Ghasemi says.

This led to a concentration of poverty in Flint, a decrease in the number of police officers and a rise in crime to one of the highest rates in the nation.

However, spironolactone was associated with increased serum creatinine levels and a doubling of the rate of hyperkalemia (high potassium concentration in the blood), but conversely led to reduced hypokalemia (low potassium concentration in the blood).

Lead author of the study, Sabrina Wenzel of DLR explains: «the carbon dioxide concentrations measured for many decades on Hawaii and in Alaska show characteristic cycles, with lower values in the summer when strong photosynthesis causes plants to absorb CO2, and higher - values in the winter when photosynthesis stops.

African - Americans, who have high concentrations of melanin, are less able to absorb Vitamin D from the sun leading some to believe that this contributes to higher rates of negative birth outcomes.

«The high concentration of suicide risk in the 5 percent of highest - risk hospitalizations is striking,» said lead author Ronald Kessler, McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.

«Periods of very intense North Atlantic circulation and higher Northern Hemisphere temperatures increased the preservation of microfossils in the sediment cores, whereas those with slower circulation, when the study site was primarily influenced from the south, were linked with decreased carbonate ion concentrations at our core site which led to partial dissolution,» said co-author Dr Luke Skinner, also from Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences.