Cross-sectional study on urinary metal concentrations in young adult residents of Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

• Asmaa Masarani ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Environmental Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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• Raghad Khaled ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Environmental Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9365-7246

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• Bdour Hussein,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1520-2855

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• Huda Alhammadi,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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• Salma Al-Ali,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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• Yahya Kinbaz,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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• Shima A. Mohammad Zadeh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiotherapy, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7930-568X

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• Tamer Shousha,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiotherapy, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

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• Mouath Mousa,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Institute of Sciences and Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

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• Mai M. Hassanein,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

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• Mohammad Semreen,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

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• Lucy Semerjian,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Environmental Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Research Institute of Sciences and Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

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• Khaled Abass

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kabass@sharjah.ac.ae, khaled.megahed@oulu.fi

  Affiliations Environmental Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Research Institute of Sciences and Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Research Unit of Biomedicine and Internal Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1843-7644

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