UNIT 2: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL AREAS AND

EVALUATION OF EXPOSURE IN HEALTH EFFECTS

TASK 4: CASE ANALYSIS OF A DOCUMENT

STUDENT:
EDWIN HERNANDEZ PINZÓN CODE: 1 038 107 900

GROUP CODE: 358009_48

TUTOR: MYRIAN SOFÍA GUZMÁN

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OPEN AND DISTANCE UNAD

SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURAL, LIVESTOCK AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ECAPMA
ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM

APRIL 2019
1. What is the cause or environmental problem generated according to
the article and where it is developed?
Pollution by chromium (Cr) caused by wastewater from tanneries. A chemical
analysis was performed, and showed that Cr, the primary contaminant in the
channel water at Hazaribagh, consisted of ≤0.7 μM of hexavalent Cr [Cr (VI)] and
≤1705 μM of Cr [Cr (III) trivalent] .
This environmental problem is developed in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh

2. Which diseases can be presented by the handling of Cr according to

the article?
Cr (VI) has toxic, genotoxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic effects, which cause
negative health problems, such as skin;
 Lesions
 Ulceration and perforation of the nasal septum,
 Perforation of the eardrum,
 Decreased spermatogenesis
 And lung carcinoma. (Bharagava and Mishra, 2018; Mishra and Bharagava,
2016

3. What is the effect of co-exposure to Cr (VI) and Cr (III)?

According to the results of the environmental monitoring in the city of Dhaka they
indicated that the residents' skin was possibly exposed to molar ratios of Cr (VI):
Cr (III) from 1:29 to 1: 32782. There fore, the effect of coexposure to Cr (VI)
and Cr (III) in that range of relationships in the independent growth of anchorage
of HaCaT keratinocytes. Unexpectedly, the anchorage independent growth levels
were 2.5 times higher and 2.3 times increased by coexposure at 0.001 μM Cr (VI)
and 10 μM Cr (III)
in the following image you can see the results

(Fig. 4 A) and coexposition at 0.003 μM Cr (VI) and 1 μM Cr (III) (Fig. 4 B),

respectively, compared to that of the null control.
4. ¿what is the conclusión of the study?
 The environmental engineering study showed that MF-HT can be used for
the elimination of Cr (VI) and Cr (III)
 This study has found measures to control pollution in the channels and
waters of rivers.

 It was shown that the "Carcinogenicity of Cr (VI)" is increasing while there

is presence of Cr III.

 Finally, this study proposes alternatives for global environmental solution of

Cr.

5. Sustenance: Why this article is relevant to the environmental

epidemiology course.

This article is important in the course of environmental epidemiology, since

it is an area of knowledge oriented to the study of the different types of
exposures and illnesses in our environment that have a greater impact on
health.
The case of the environmental problem "Pollution by chromium (Cr)" is part
of the environmental epidemiology, because water is a fundamental non-
renewable resource in the life of all living beings, but is also affected by the
 contamination of these chemicals This is where environmental epidemiology
plays a very important role.
Drinking water can transport many diseases produced by microbiological
and chemical agents. In many countries, the epidemics of diseases
transmitted by the consumption of contaminated water are related to the
supply of untreated water for human consumption. These diseases affect a
lot of people in the world.

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