Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Serum heavy metals and hemoglobin related compounds in Saudi Arabia firefighters | Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology BioMed Central Open Access Study protocol Serum heavy metals and hemoglobin related compounds in Saudi Arabia firefighters Abdulrahman L Al-Malki Address Biochemistry Department Faculty of Science King Abdualziz University Jeddah Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Email Abdulrahman L Al-Malki - alalmalki@ Published 7 July 2009 Received 27 July 2008 Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2009 4 18 doi 1745-6673-4-18 Accepted 7 July 2009 This article is available from http content 4 1 18 2009 Al-Malki licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Firefighters are frequently exposed to significant concentrations of hazardous materials including heavy metals aldehydes hydrogen chloride dichlorofluoromethane and some particulates. Many of these materials have been implicated in the triggering of several diseases. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of fire smoke exposure on serum heavy metals and possible affection on iron functions compounds total iron binding capacity transferrin saturation percent ferritin unsaturated iron-binding capacity blood hemoglobin and carboxyhemoglobin . Subjects and methods Two groups of male firefighter volunteers were included the first included 28 firefighters from Jeddah city while the second included 21 firefighters from Yanbu city with an overall age rang of 20-48 years. An additional group of 23 male non-firefighters volunteered from both cities as normal control subjects. Blood samples were collected from all volunteer subjects and investigated for relevant parameters. Results The results obtained showed that there were no statistically significant changes in the .
