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Assessing the boron nutritional status by analyzing its cummulative frequency distribution in the hair and whole blood

Boron is a non-essential ubiquitous trace element in the human body. The aim of this study was to assess boron nutritional status by analyzing boron frequency distribution in the long-term biological indicator tissue of hair and the short-term biological indicator of whole blood. Hair samples were analyzed in 727 apparently healthy subjects (263 male and 464 female ) and the whole blood boron was analyzed in the random subsample of them (80 male and 152 female). Samples were analyzed by the ICP-MS at the Center for Biotic Medicine, Moscow, Russia. The adequate reference range for hair boron concentration was (mu g . g(-1)) 0.771- 6.510 for men and distinctly lower 0.472-3.89 for women ; there was no detectable difference in the whole blood boron for the adequate reference range between men (0.020-.078) and women (0019-0.062). Boron may play an essential role in the metabolism of the connective tissue of the biological bone matrix.

Boron ; Adequate reference ranges ; Nutritional status ; Hair ; Whole blood ; Gender

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