The total amount of a particular chemical present in a human's or animal's body, typically a radioactive element or other toxic substance.
‘even people with typical exposures to the chemicals in the survey could face health risks from their body burden’
‘Smoking cessation may provide a means to lower the body burden of POPs.’
‘The most widely used index of exposure is blood metal concentration, reflecting the body burden received in the previous 2 mo.’
‘The European Union is making progress on reducing the body burden.’
‘Every person ever tested has a body burden of dioxins.’
‘The group wanted to measure how early the human body burden of chemicals begins to accumulate.’
‘However, not all newspapers chose to emphasize chemical body burden over more compelling headlines about contaminated breastmilk.’
‘Demonstration of an elevated body burden of asbestos confirms past exposure.’
‘Body burden is just a number, a concentration in parts per billion or micrograms per liter.’
‘This may reflect greater exposure or retained body burden.’
‘This is thought to be due to greater exposure or retained body burden, not malignant degeneration.’
‘Two encouraging findings in the CDC report point toward at least one solution to the toxic body burden in humans.’
‘The half-life of methyl mercury in blood, which is assumed to indicate the total body burden, is usually assumed to be about 50 days.’
‘Industrial exposure, food and cigarette smoking are the major sources of the body burden of cadmium.’
‘The other interesting fact is that not all species of fish carry the same body burden of mercury.’
‘Therefore, investigators should use caution when assigning a level as lifetime body burden.’
‘She has been asked if she thinks her chemical body burden caused the disease.’
‘The toxic burden should be assessed and corrected, including lowering the body burden of organics and potentially toxic metals.’
‘In the absence of nephropathy, urinary cadmium levels increase proportionately to the amount of cadmium stored in the body, thereby making it an indicator of body burden.’
‘Smoking increases the cadmium body burden, and perhaps cadmium is released from body pools during pregnancy.’
‘The slow component reflects the body burden in view of the known transport of cadmium via blood from the liver to the kidneys and other tissues.’
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