Health risk assessment of heavy metals on PM2.5 in Tehran air, Iran

Anoushiravan MohseniBandpi; Akbar Eslami; Mansour Ghaderpoori; Abbas Shahsavani; Ali Khani Jeihooni; Afshin Ghaderpoury; Abdolazim Alinejad

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.01.018

Health risk assessment of heavy metals on PM_2.5 in Tehran air, Iran

Data Brief. 2018 Jan 31:17:347-355. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.01.018. eCollection 2018 Apr.

Authors

Anoushiravan MohseniBandpi¹, Akbar Eslami¹, Mansour Ghaderpoori^{2

3}, Abbas Shahsavani^{1

4}, Ali Khani Jeihooni⁵, Afshin Ghaderpoury⁶, Abdolazim Alinejad⁵

Affiliations

¹ Environmental and Occupational Hazards Control Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
² Nutritional Health Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran.
³ Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health and Nutrition, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran.
⁴ Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
⁵ Department of Public Health, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran.
⁶ Students Research Committee, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The general goal of this study was to measure the concentration of heavy metals on suspended particles and evaluate the health-risk assessment of these metals on human health. In this study, the concentration of heavy metals adsorbed on suspended particles less than 2.5 μm was determined. For determining of health-risk assessment, the developed method of USEPA was used. The health-risk assessment of carcinogen and non- carcinogen of suspended particles were evaluated in three main paths include oral ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact. The average annual concentrations of Al, Fe, As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, V, and Zn were 1.77, 1.14, 0.03, 0.02, 0.07, 0.15, 0.06, 0.03, 0.1, 0.04, and 0.14 μg/m³, respectively. Between different stations, the order for the heavy metals was followed as urban>traffic>suburban. The average risk of carcinogenic at urban stations in the spring for As, Cd, and Cr was 2.25*10^-9, 2.09*10^-12, and 2.05*10^-11, respectively.

Keywords: Air pollution; Health risk assessment; Heavy metals; Tehran.