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The aim of the study was to determine the profile of toxic metal levels in pregnant women in the general population and to identify biomarkers for metal toxicity in embryos.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A case\u2010control study with pregnant women was conducted at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in 2016\u20102018. Women who experienced spontaneous abortion within 12\u00a0weeks of gestation comprised the case group, and women with pregnancies showing fetal cardiac activity who requested an induced abortion almost simultaneously were included in the control group. Blood and urine specimen were tested for concentrations of cadmium, chromium, selenium, arsenic, and mercury.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A total of 195 patients were enrolled, with 95 in the case group and 100 in the control group. Significant differences in gravidity, parity, history of miscarriage, mean blood cadmium levels, and mean urine chromium levels were present between the two groups (P1\u00a0=\u00a00.013, P2\u00a0=\u00a00.000, P3\u00a0=\u00a00.000, P4\u00a0=\u00a00.002, P5\u00a0=\u00a00.046); the odds ratios in the spontaneous abortion with blood cadmium &gt;0.4\u00a0\u00b5g\/L, urine chromium &gt;2\u00a0\u00b5g\/L, gravity &lt;3, parity &lt;2, and history of miscarriage &gt;1 compared with the induced abortion group were 1.26 (1.09, 1.85), 1.56 (1.23, 2.53), 1.39 (1.17, 1.98), 1.72 (1.21, 4.62), and 1.18 (1.06, 1.65), with\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2010values of 0.003, 0.031, 0.003, 0.247, and 0.001, respectively.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Blood cadmium and urine chromium levels are two possible biomarkers of toxic metal embryotoxicity in the general population, which means that in the general population, blood cadmium &gt;0.4\u00a0\u00b5g\/L or urine chromium &gt;2\u00a0\u00b5g\/L might indicate an increased risk of spontaneous abortion.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1002\/jcla.22974","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,11]],"date-time":"2019-07-11T09:29:04Z","timestamp":1562837344000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Biomarkers of metal toxicity in embryos in the general population"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"33","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9103-8175","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ou","family":"Jie","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College Beijing China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ping","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College Beijing China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lin","family":"Qiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Clinical Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College Beijing China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lirong","family":"Teng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College Beijing China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chunying","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College Beijing China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jianhua","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Clinical Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College Beijing China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xinyan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College Beijing China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_5_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1097\/00001648-199711000-00016"},{"key":"e_1_2_5_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1439-0396.2008.00913.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_5_4_1","first-page":"30","article-title":"Experimental evaluation of combined effects caused by stress and metals (cadmium and aluminium) in reproductivity of male rats","volume":"6","author":"Makutina VA","year":"2014","journal-title":"Med Tr Prom Ekol"},{"issue":"1","key":"e_1_2_5_5_1","first-page":"59","article-title":"Cadmium and lead in women who miscarried","volume":"64","author":"Omeljaniuk W","year":"2018","journal-title":"Clin Lab"},{"key":"e_1_2_5_6_1","unstructured":"WHO.Cadmium Environmental Health Criteria No. 134 WHO. 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