Urinary lead as a possible surrogate of blood lead among workers occupationally exposed to lead

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 516-520

  Fukui, Y ^a   Miki, M ^a   Ukai, H ^a   Okamoto, S ^a   Takada, S ^a   Higashikawa, K ^a   Ikeda, M ^a  

^a KYOTO INDUSTRIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological monitoring; Blood lead; Urinary lead

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE DENSITY; URINALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; METALLURGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIFIC GRAVITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 0032745434     PISSN: 03400131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004200050409     Document Type: Article

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