SELENIUM STATUS IN TURKEY .1. SERUM SELENIUM LEVELS IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN IN ANKARA

HINCAL F., YETGIN S., ATACERI N.

BIOLOGICAL TRACE ELEMENT RESEARCH, sa.1-2, ss.161-167, 1989 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Basım Tarihi: 1989
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/bf02919108
  • Dergi Adı: BIOLOGICAL TRACE ELEMENT RESEARCH
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.161-167
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study was initiated to evaluate the status of selenium in Turkish residents. Serum selenium level of 76 healthy children, living in Ankara, aged 2 mo-13 y was determined by a spectrofluorometric method. Average selenium level was found to be 88.1 .+-. 12.4 .mu.g/L (mean .+-. SD). Selenium levels showed a tendency to increase with age and mean selenium level in early infancy was lower than that of school children; no relation to the sex and hematological parameters such as hemoglobin concentration and white blood cell counts were observed.