Mercury-induced motor and sensory neurotoxicity: systematic review of workers currently exposed to mercury vapor.

ABSTRACT: The neurotoxicity of elemental mercury (Hg⁰) is well-recognized, but it is uncertain whether and for how long neurotoxicity persists; among studies that evaluated previously exposed workers, only one examined workers during and also years after exposure ceased. The aim of this review is to document the type, frequency, and dose-relatedness of objective neurological effects in currently exposed mercury workers and thereby provide first approximations of the effects one would have expected in previously exposed workers evaluated during exposure. We systematically reviewed studies of neurotoxicity in currently exposed mercury workers identified by searching MEDLINE (1950-2015), government reports, textbook chapters, and references cited therein; dental cohorts were not included. Ou

SUBMITTER: Fields CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5931703 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature