Changing Metal Cycles and Human Health formatIsbn:Softcover 9783642693168 The recent increase in the 53 The recent increase in the incidence of civi lization diseases of the vascular system has resulted in a world wide expansion of arteriosclerosis research In 1958 1959 This point was amply document ed in a recent study of cadmium intake and cadmium in a number of human tissues in Sweden One immediate implication is that any health ef fect studies of cadmium in Japan using control groups within that country are liable to underestimate the difference between the exposed and the control groups simply because of the the high "background" intake