Health risk assessment of inhalational exposure to heavy metals in drivers working in an urban desert city in the Middle East.

Heavy metals are threatening the lives of people around the world. This study aims to quantify the adverse health risks of seven heavy metals, including arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, lead, manganese, and nickel in taxi drivers in an urban desert city, Yazd, Iran. The exposure concentrations were determined through air sampling in the breathing zone of 40 randomly selected intercity taxi drivers, 20 in winter and 20 in summer, in 2019.

Biochemical and hematological effects of lead exposure in Iranian battery workers.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the hematotoxic, hepatotoxic and nephrotoxic responses following lead exposure among battery workers. . Seventy-eight battery workers exposed to lead and 78 non-exposed subjects were studied.