Detox and binders
Does N-acetylcysteine lower blood lead in exposed workers?
In 171 men with ongoing occupational lead exposure, blood lead fell from baseline in groups assigned to N-acetylcysteine for 12 weeks. Erythrocyte glutathione rose 5 percent and 6 percent at 400 and 800 mg/day. There was no placebo, blinding was not stated, and exposure continued. No glutathione trial with a metal outcome was located. Glutathione is graded on its own page.
Study
Kasperczyk and colleagues (2013) randomized 171 workers, 49 of them controls, to no treatment or one of three doses. doi:10.3109/15563650.2013.802797. PMID 23731375. Later papers from the same group were not counted as independent trials.
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