Raising awareness of riverine populations in the Brazilian Amazon about MeHg intoxication in APOE 4 carriers: cardiovascular risk and potential benefit of native selenium diets

Front Toxicol. 2025 May 8:7:1571658. doi: 10.3389/ftox.2025.1571658. eCollection 2025.

¹ Laboratory of the Biology of Tissue Healing, Ontogeny and Nutrition Biomedicine Center, School of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
² Laboratory of Atherosclerosis and Nutritional Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
³ Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Para, Belem, Brazil.

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Keywords: DIETS; antioxidants; apolipoprotein E4; metabolic syndrome; methylmercury; obesity; selenium.