Environmental nickel pollution: Does it protect against nickel allergy? - 01/09/11
Doi : 10.1067/mjd.2002.120443
Tone Smith-Sivertsen, MD, PhDa, Valeri Tchachtchine, MD, PhDb, Eiliv Lund, MD, PhDc
Bergen and Tromsø, Norway, and Kirovsk, Russia
From the Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergena; the Kola Research Laboratory for Occupational Health, Kirovskb; and the Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø.c
Abstract |
The Norwegian-Russian border area is polluted because of emissions from two local Russian nickel refineries. We patch tested the general adult population on both sides of the border. Only 7.2% of the Russian women were sensitized to nickel, compared with 27.5% of the Norwegian women. We suggest that long-term exposure to nickel may have induced immunologic tolerance in the Russian population. (J Am Acad Dermatol 2002;46:460-2.)
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 | Funded by the Norwegian Ministries of the Environment, Health and Social Affairs and Foreign Affairs, the Russian Ministry of Health, and the Murmansk Regional Health Care Committee. |
| Conflicts of interest: None. |
 | Reprint requests: Tone Smith-Sivertsen, Dept of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Ulriksdal 8c, N-5009 Bergen, Norway. E-mail: Tone.Smith-Sivertsen@isf.uib.no. |
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American Academy of Dermatology, Inc. Publié par Elsevier Masson SAS. Tous droits réservés.
Vol 46 - N° 3
P. 460-462 - mars 2002 Retour au numéro
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