SATURDAY afternoon presented a typical scene at the local skating rink in Haarlem: a synchronised peloton of long-limbed Dutch Mercuries, aged 15 to 70, whipping around the inner lane of the regulation 400-metre (1,312 feet) circuit, while a couple hundred of us clumsy mortals straggled along the periphery.
In order to test the relationship between concentrations of mercury and age, a linear regression model was employed for subadults, adult females and adult males, respectively (Table 2).
There have been reports of positive associations between blood mercury and age (Batariova et al. 2006; Caldwell et al. 2009), and maternal blood mercury levels have been associated with higher education, income, and ethnicity (Mahaffey et al. 2009; Miranda et al. 2011).
Mercury died aged 45 in 1991 from bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS.
In the subgroup of older ex-mercury miners, age prominently increased the lie score.
The communities of Barreiras, São Luiz do Tapajós, and Maranhão showed different levels of mercury in different age groups, confirming previous reports that different mercury levels can be found in different age groups [ 18, 23, 27].
The average weekly intake of mercury for all age groups exceeded the intake guidelines (5.0 micrograms/kg/day) established by the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization/World Health Organization Expert Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants.
The inclusion criteria for ex-mercury miners were age younger than 64 years, exposure to Hg for at least 3 years or 12 exposure cycles, and no exposure to Hg in at least the past 12 or 8 months but urinary mercury (U-Hg) excretion below 15 μg/L at last exposure.
The company's bread-and-butter midsize sedans, the Ford Taurus and its twin, the Mercury Sable, have aging designs and sinking sales.
The strongest negative association was for the hair-mercury concentration at age 5 years with regard to the diphtheria antibody concentration at age 7 years (−16.3; 95% CI, −31.3 to 1.9; p = 0.08), but this association was substantially attenuated when adjusted for PCB (−5.6; 95% CI, −23.9 to 17.2; p = 0.60).
