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The chemical composition of microelements in human body is changing due to the global and local anthropogenic stress on biogeochemical cycles. The elemental composition of human hair and the quantitative relationship between the elements serve as summary characteristics of the biogeochemical environmental conditions. Identifying the content of trace elements in the chemical composition of hair requires highly sensitive and selective methods of analysis—electrochemical analysis and, above all, voltammetry. These methods are highly efficient, sensitive, simple, and easily automated. To determine the biogeochemical situation, we examined 180 residents of Tomsk and Seversk and determined the volumes of trace elements in their hair by stripping voltammetry. We found out that the content of trace elements varied significantly, depending on the age and sex of people. Most of the Tomsk population had a deficit of irreplaceable elements (zinc, copper, etc.) in human hair. However, the differences in the content of those elements were statistically significant, which warrants further study on the factors of this variability.
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The study was funded by the Competitiveness Enhancement Program grant of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. The study was conducted in the framework of the Government Task “Science (basic),” project No. 20.0025.GZB.2020.
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Slepchenko, G.B., Khlusov, I.A., Moiseeva, E.S. (2023). Stripping Voltammetry as a Method for Assessing the Possible Effects of Microelements on Humans. In: Maximova, S.G., Raikin, R.I., Chibilev, A.A., Silantyeva, M.M. (eds) Advances in Natural, Human-Made, and Coupled Human-Natural Systems Research. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 250. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78083-8_13
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