Blood lead in pregnant women in the urban slums of Lucknow, India

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 836-840

  Awasthi, Shally ^a   Awasthi, Rajiv ^b   Kumar Pande, Vinod ^a   Srivastav, R C ^c   Frumkin, Howard ^d  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Government of Uttar Pradesh   (India)

^c CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fetus; India; lead; neurotoxicity; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INDIA; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0030450467     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.53.12.836     Document Type: Article

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