Research Watch, Welding Fumes, September 2006

1 ARTICLE: 'Heart rate variability, hemostatic and acute inflammatory blood parameters in healthy adults after short-term exposure to welding fume' photo-1

JOURNAL: International Archives of Occupational & Environmental Health. 2006 Jun 22.

SUMMARY: The present study aimed to investigate whether short-term experimental exposure to high levels of welding fumes would be capable of exerting acute effects in healthy subjects. Specifically, the authors assessed cardiovascular function in terms of heart rate variability (HRV) as well as the concentrations of inflammatory mediators and hemostatic proteins in blood as outcome measures. Twenty subjects without a history of airway and …