Determinants of bone and blood lead levels among teenagers living in urban areas with high lead exposure

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 733-737

  Farias, Paulina ^a   Hu, Howard ^b,c   Rubenstein, Elizabeth ^b   Meneses Gonzalez, Fernando ^a   Fishbein, Eugenia ^a   Palazuelos, Eduardo ^d,e   Aro, Antonio ^b   Hernandez Avila, Mauricio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d AMERICAN BRITISH COWDRAY MEDICAL CENTER   (Mexico)

^e Secretaria del Medio Ambiente   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Blood lead; Bone lead; K X ray fluorescence; Teenagers

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BONE LEVEL; BONE MINERAL; CERAMICS; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEXICO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; TIBIA; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0032435917     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3434262     Document Type: Article

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