Heavy Metal Exposures in Women and Children, the Role of Nutrients

描述(由申请人提供) 关于妇女和儿童中重金属暴露、营养素的作用的研讨会将于2007年4月30日在华盛顿特区的华盛顿会议中心举行。重金属对成人和儿童的健康结果产生不利影响。随着全世界数百万人面临接触重金属的危险，人们正致力于了解金属毒性对健康的影响和机制。然而，重金属暴露并不是孤立发生的；受影响的个人还会经历导致健康状况不佳的其他风险因素，包括营养不良。接触重金属和营养缺乏的可能性很高，对健康结果产生相加或相乘的影响，特别是在妇女和儿童中。尽管有这种重叠，但毒理学家和营养学家之间的跨学科研究和思想交流一直相当有限。这两个领域正在取得重要进展，因此有必要对这一共同问题采取跨学科的方法。因此，有必要为营养学家和毒物学家创造机会，交流他们的发现和想法。研讨会的目标是将重金属毒性方面的专家与营养研究人员聚集在营养科学的首要会议上，这是美国营养学会的年度会议，以促进信息交流和思想交流。其目的是让科学家进行交叉毒理学和营养学领域的研究，向营养受众展示他们的发现，提高对儿童妇女接触重金属对健康影响的认识和理解，并探索营养素在预防或减轻重金属毒性方面的作用。这次研讨会是及时的，因为重金属暴露在全球范围内正在增加，营养不良在世界一些地区是地方性的，随着有毒金属、基本营养物质和基因之间的相互作用正在被发现。迫切需要让营养学家和毒物学家参与确定合作方法，以解决脆弱人群中的这些重叠暴露问题。研讨会的结果将发表在《营养杂志》上，这是阅读量最大的营养学出版物之一。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The symposium on Heavy metal exposures in women and children, the role of nutrients, will be held at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC on April 30th, 2007. Heavy metals adversely affect health outcomes in adults and children. With millions of individuals worldwide at risk exposed to heavy metals, a great deal of effort is focused on understanding the health effects and mechanisms of metal toxicity. Heavy metal exposures do not occur in isolation, however; affected individuals also experience other risk factors for poor health, including malnutrition. The potential for overlap in exposure to heavy metals and nutritional deficiencies is high, with additive or multiplicative effects on health outcomes, especially in women and children. Despite this overlap, interdisciplinary research and exchange of ideas among toxicologists and nutritionists has been fairly limited. Important developments are being made in the two fields, and they necessitate interdisciplinary approaches to this common problem. Thus, there is a need to create opportunities for nutritionists and toxicologists to communicate their findings and exchange ideas. The goal of the symposium is to bring together experts on heavy metal toxicity with nutrition researchers at the premier meeting for nutritional science, the annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition, to foster an exchange of information and a cross-fertilization of ideas. The aim is for scientists conducting research that intersects the fields of toxicology and nutrition to present their findings to a nutrition audience, to increase awareness and understanding of the health effects of heavy metal exposures in women in children, and to explore the role of nutrients in preventing or alleviating heavy metal toxicity. The symposium is timely as heavy metal exposures are increasing worldwide, as malnutrition is endemic in some areas of the world, and as interactions between toxic metals, essential nutrients, and genes are being discovered. There is an urgent need to engage nutritionists and toxicologists in identifying collaborative approaches for addressing these overlapping exposures in vulnerable populations. The symposium will result in proceedings published in the Journal of Nutrition, one of the most widely read nutrition publications.