Institusion
Universitas Katolik Musi Charitas
Author
Ngole, Berti Betrandas Rosari
Subject
RZ Other systems of medicine
Datestamp
2021-08-13 05:20:17
Abstract :
Background : Communities around the Musi River can be contaminated with heavy metals because the Musi River water is polluted by heavy metals. Activities that allow lead contaminatio are washing, bathing, and defecating. Lead that enters the body can effect the number of erythrocytes, thereby reducing the number of erythrocytes, and inhibition of haeme synthesis by lead levels can affect the number of erythrocytes. One of the ways in which lead can enter the body is through the skin (dermal).
Objective : This study aims to determine the relationship between blood lead levels and the number of erythrocytes in Kapitan Village, Palembang City
Methods : The research was conducted on 17 people who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria with the type of research ?Analytic Survey?. The Selected research subjects amounted to 17 respondents with purposive sampling technique.
Results : The results of the study of lead levels and the number of erythrocytes in the blood were still within normal limits. The normality test shows that the data is normally distributed so that to test the hypothesis, the person correlation test is used. The results of the hypothesis test showed that there was no relationship between blood lead levels and the number of erythrocytes with a significant value of 0,195 > 0,05.
Conclusion : Based on this study, it can be concluded that there is no relationship between blood lead levels with the number of erythrocytes in the village captain city of Palembang.
Suggestion : The next researcher can conduct research by comparing the Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer Furnance Graph (GF-AAS) and Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) in the of lead levels
Keywords : Erythrocyte count, Lead, Protoporphyrin