Abstract

The study was performed to determine Selenium level in a first year foreign students' biosubstrates who came for an education to Peoples' Friendship University of Russia - RUDN University. The number of students who participated in the study was in total 583 and contained of students from North and Tropical Africa, Latin America, the Near and Middle East, East and South-East Asian, Central Asia and Russia (Moscow). The analysis of selenium concentration in hair, blood serum and urine was made with Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS). The conducted study demonstrated that the highest hair selenium level was in the Tropical Africa and Latin America students’ samples. The highest selenium concentration in the blood serum and urine characterized Latin America students’ samples. In the result of the study the selenium deficiency was not demonstrated in any participated students’ group.

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