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  2. Cadmium poisoning - Wikipedia

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    Cadmium concentrations in healthy persons without excessive cadmium exposure are generally less than 1 μg/L in either blood or urine. The ACGIH biological exposure indices for blood and urine cadmium levels are 5 μg/L and 5 μg/g creatinine, respectively, in random specimens. Persons who have sustained kidney damage due to chronic cadmium ...

  3. List of human blood components - Wikipedia

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    Cadmium: normal 1-5 × 10 −9: toxic 0.1-3 × 10 −6: Calciferol (vitamin D 2) Maintain calcium and phosphorus levels ... Needed for nerve cells, red blood cells ...

  4. Itai-itai disease - Wikipedia

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    Once the cadmium makes it into the tubular cells in the kidneys, the cadmium is released and accumulates in the renal cortex until it reaches toxic levels. [14] When cadmium reaches dangerous levels in the renal cortex, it can deactivate metal-dependent enzymes or activate calmodulin, which plays a role in smooth muscle contraction by sensing ...

  5. Cadmium exposure may be linked to memory problems in ... - AOL

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    It can penetrate the blood-brain barrier and stay in the brain, and it can accumulate over one’s lifetime. ... “Regions in the U.S. and abroad with higher environmental cadmium levels have ...

  6. Is dark chocolate good for you? 8 health benefits, according ...

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    Managing blood-sugar levels. ... .com published in Frontiers in Nutrition found that many dark chocolate products contain the toxic heavy metals lead and cadmium. ...

  7. Metals in medicine - Wikipedia

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    Sources of toxic metals include cadmium from tobacco, arsenic from agriculture and mercury from volcanoes and forest fires. Nature, in the form of trees and plants, is able to trap many toxins and can bring abnormally high levels back into equilibrium. Toxic metal poisoning is usually treated with some type of chelating agent.

  8. Many dark chocolate products contaminated with heavy metals ...

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    35% were above the maximum allowable dose level for cadmium. The California standards were used because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration doesn’t set limits on heavy metals in most foods ...

  9. Cadmium - Wikipedia

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    The cadmium cut-off is about 0.5 eV, and neutrons below that level are deemed slow neutrons, distinct from intermediate and fast neutrons. [16] Cadmium is created via the s-process in low- to medium-mass stars with masses of 0.6 to 10 solar masses, over thousands of years.