[The characteristics of the accumulation of metals in the hair of children].

Gender- and colour-associated quantitative features of accumulation of zinc, copper, nickel, lead, molybdenum and chromium have been studied in the hair of children aged 3-4 yr residing in different districts of Kiev. Inverse relationship was found between accumulation of lead and zinc, zinc and copper; direct proportionality between copper and lead, chromium and molibdenum. The levels of nickel detected in 34% of the hair samples did not permit establishing the pattern of this metal relations to other metallic elements.