Sentences with phrase «micrograms for»

The recommended amount is 400 micrograms for women that could get pregnant.

Daily vitamin A needs are 700 micrograms for women and 900 micrograms for men.

If you want to minimize your exposure to dietary acrylamide, you'll need to restrict your intake of the above foods in order to stay well under the EPA reference dose maximum safety level of 2 micrograms per kilogram of body weight (or about 140 micrograms for a person weighing 150 pounds).

Because of its newer and better - researched status, we used the National Academy of Sciences standard of 30 micrograms for adults 19 and older as our WHFoods recommended intake level for biotin.

The old values ranged from 50 micrograms to 200 micrograms for adults.

The daily requirement of vitamin K is 90 micrograms for women and 120 micrograms for men.

Consume a combination of both vegetables to reach your recommended daily intake of 120 or 90 micrograms for men and women, respectively, according to the Linus Pauling Institute.

The Recommended Daily Allowance is 400 micrograms of dietary folate equivalents, and 600 micrograms for women who are pregnant.

Not exact matches

In fact, one Boston University study of 19,000 people concluded that for every additional 10 micrograms per cubic meter of bad air, your brain ages about two years.

«But if there's a 100 microgram per meter smoke day, we'd expect that to go to a 100 percent increase of inhaler refills for the population,» Katelyn O'Dell, who studies the health hazards of wildfire smoke at Colorado state university said.

-- Avocados contain about 20 vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients, including 4 % of the recommended Daily Value (DV) for vitamin E, 4 % vitamin C, 8 % folate, 4 % fiber, 2 % iron, 4 % potassium, with 81 micrograms of lutein and 19 micrograms of beta - carotene.

Concentrations in most products were relatively low, but when taking into account the large serving size suggested, the number of micrograms per day for a few of the products was high compared with most others tested.

For example, if a fortified plant milk contains 1 microgram of B12 per serving then consuming three servings a day will provide adequate vitamin B12.

An ounce of desiccated coconut offers 778 micrograms of manganese — 43 percent of the recommended daily intake for women and 34 percent for men — as well as 226 micrograms of copper, or one - quarter of your recommended daily copper intake.

Ask for the number of micrograms per deciliter found in your child's blood.

But levels of just 7 parts per billion are believed to be capable of increasing a person's blood level over 5 micrograms per deciliter - the current level of concern for health.

For example, in one study with paroxetine (Paxil), the baby got less than 0.3 % of the drug for each kilogram of his weight than the mother did (the mother got over 300 micrograms per kg per day, whereas the baby got about 1 microgram per kg per daFor example, in one study with paroxetine (Paxil), the baby got less than 0.3 % of the drug for each kilogram of his weight than the mother did (the mother got over 300 micrograms per kg per day, whereas the baby got about 1 microgram per kg per dafor each kilogram of his weight than the mother did (the mother got over 300 micrograms per kg per day, whereas the baby got about 1 microgram per kg per day).

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommends 0.4 mg (400 micrograms) of folic acid per day for women of childbearing age, so make sure your multivitamin has at least this much; most prenatal vitamins will have more than this.

A blood lead level of 12 is more than twice the five micrograms per deciliter level that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers problematic, and two points above what's widely considered poisoned.

Because so many pregnancies are not planned, the CDC recommends that women of childbearing ages make sure to consume at least 400 micrograms (mcg) of folic acid each day — and that those planning a pregnancy should make sure they are getting that amount for at least three months before pregnancy.

For example, if you've given birth to a baby who has a neural tube defect, your health care provider might recommend a separate supplement containing a higher dose of folic acid — such as 4 milligrams (4,000 micrograms)-- before and during any subsequent pregnancies.

Week 1: If you haven't started already, you should be taking a prenatal multivitamin with folic acid daily (bump it up to 600 micrograms folic acid once you know for sure you're pregnant).

The normal daily dose for women trying to get pregnant and for pregnant women is 400 micrograms.

In its investigation, Consumer Reports tested three commercial infant rice cereals and found an average of 1.44 micrograms of inorganic arsenic in a single serving, which means that a baby who has two servings a day could exceed the EPA's limits for arsenic exposure.

Four years ago, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention lowered the threshold that requires medical care for children testing positive for lead in their blood from 10 to 5 micrograms per deciliter of blood.

Although Erie County health officials do not have a precise number of children affected, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz proposed $ 3.75 million over five years for lead prevention, a portion of which will address the lack of case management for these children diagnosed with levels of 5 to 9 micrograms.

«We are in full support of their work and County Executive Poloncarz's proposal to expand their impact by providing services for children who have between blood lead levels of 5 - 9 micrograms per deciliter.»

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2012 adopted a stricter threshold for case management of 5 micrograms per deciliter of blood, which is equivalent to one grain of sugar dropped in 3.3 gallons of liquid.

But Tika Bhattarai's family did not because her son tested for a blood lead level of 7.5 micrograms per deciliter of blood.

«If you look at data from around the country, it seems pretty consistent that there are around three times as many kids with 5 - 9 [micrograms] as there are kids with greater than 10 [micrograms],» Katrina Korfmacher, a lead poisoning prevention expert and associate professor for the Department of Environmental Medicine at University of Rochester Medical Center, wrote in an email.

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.

After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.

For each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 1.3 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 3.3 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 4.5 perceFor each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 1.3 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 3.3 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 4.5 percefor asthma by 3.3 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 4.5 percefor asthma by 4.5 percent.

They exposed pregnant female rats to 0, 300, or 1,000 micrograms of the chemical mixture per day for 10 days during gestation.

To put that into perspective, the World Health Organization (WHO) puts the threshold for safe air at 25 micrograms per cubic meter, and India's Central Pollution Control Board limits exposure to 60 micrograms per cubic meter, said Cusworth, a member of the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group led by Daniel J. Jacob, the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, and Loretta J. Mickley, Senior Research Fellow at SEAS.

In a typical urban area with a high level of background air pollution — for example, around 15 micrograms of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) per cubic metre, or a nitrogen dioxide concentration around 33 micrograms per cubic metre — an extra 300 trees per square kilometre was associated with around 50 fewer emergency asthma cases per 100,000 residents over the 15 year study period.

This dramatic decrease is in spite of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cutting its lead guideline in half, to 5 micrograms per deciliter of blood, last October in response to mounting scientific evidence that low levels can harm children's developing brains.

In Idaho, for example, a former lab is deemed «clean» when there is less than one tenth of a microgram of methamphetamine per square centimeter in the room where meth was cooked.

To prevent scar tissue from reblocking the artery, Johnson & Johnson's new Cypher stents are coated with 180 micrograms of the drug Rapamune, a chemical first extracted from bacteria found on Easter Island and whose name comes from Rapa Nui, the Polynesian name for the island.

The pigs that ate the venison containing lead fragments reached a lead level of 3.8 micrograms per deciliter after only two days — more than three times higher than the highest level in the control group of pigs, according to the study, which was sponsored by The Peregrine Fund, a group that advocates for the removal of lead shot to protect condors.

In the U.S. the legally required standard for air quality from 1971 to 1987 was 75 micrograms.

Since there is no federal standard for arsenic in most food, Consumer Reports compared the samples with the standard set for drinking water in New Jersey: 5 micrograms per liter, the strictest regulation in the nation.

For the years between 1981 and 2000 northern China's air contained a daily average of 551.6 micrograms of TSPs, whereas the south held an average of 354 micrograms.

That is why a major study by the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1989 recommended reducing the safety limit for uranium in kidneys from 3 micrograms per gram to 0.3 micrograms per gram.

The team found that for each increase of 10 micrograms per cubic meter of air pollution (the equivalent of the difference in air quality between a city like Los Angeles, CA and a city like St. Louis, MO), a woman's risk of cardiovascular disease increased by 44 percent if she had type 2 diabetes.

Each 10 - microgram - per - deciliter rise in lead lowers intelligence levels by four to seven points on IQ tests, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«Hmm... 866 micrograms,» Robert Earley, a director at the nonprofit Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation in Beijing, wrote on his Facebook page under a picture of himself wearing a respirator.

A national survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2001 to 2001 found that DEHP's first metabolite is present at 37.9 micrograms per liter in the 95th percentile of men, which means that just «5 percent of U.S. men had a value higher than this,» Swan said.

For my weight, my limit is about 43 micrograms of methylmercury per week.

The researchers estimate that childhood lead levels at or above 5 micrograms per deciliter of blood accounted for as many as 25 percent of the children in the study failing reading and math standardized tests.