2010全国生物材料大会论文集之 (984).pdf

Simulated impacts of fish consumption on the IQ
points of infants
Ying ZHANG, Shigeki MASUNAGA, Jiti ZHOU, Hua YANG, Yu ZHANG

Y. ZHANG*, Jiti ZHOU, Hua YANG, Yu ZHANG Shigeki MASUNAGA
School of Environ. & Biological Science & Technology Graduate School of Environment and Information Science
Dalian University of Technology Yokohama National University
Dalian 116024, China Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
E-mail*: ******@dlut.

Abstract—Fish consumption can incur the methyl mercury [7, 8, 9], women were assigned as the analysis target in this
associated risk to cognitive development and docosahexaenoic analysis.
acid associated benefit to cognitive development. The positive
impact of fish consumption, aggregately with its adverse impact, In many epidemiologic studies, prenatal exposure to
on IQ points was analyzed when women of child-bearing age mercury has been associated with adverse childhood
following the advisory on fish consumption to reduce MeHg risk. neurologic es. The quantitative dose–response between
The decrement of fish consumption can bring positive IQ points, maternal hair mercury levels and infants IQ points has been
while the increment of fish consumption will bring adverse IQ developed to estimate the benefits of reduced mercury
points. This result was highly relied on the slope of dose-response exposure [10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 1