Seafood consumption and blood mercury concentrations in adults aged ≥20 y, 2007-2010.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Seafood is part of a healthy diet, but seafood can also contain methyl mercury-a neurotoxin.

Objective

The objective was to describe seafood consumption in US adults and to explore the relation between seafood consumption and blood mercury.

Design

Seafood consumption, obtained from a food-frequency questionnaire, and blood mercury data were available for 10,673 adults who participated in the 2007-2010 NHANES-a cross-sectional nationally representative sample of the US population. Seafood consumption was categorized by type (fish or shellfish) and by frequency of consumption (0, 1-2, 3-4, or ≥5 times/mo). Linear trends in geometric mean blood mercury concentrations by frequency of seafood consumption were tested. Logistic regression analyses examined the odd

SUBMITTER: Nielsen SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10952048 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature