Blood lead levels and risk factors for lead poisoning among children in a Mexican smelting community

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 172-183

  Albalak, Rachel ^a   McElroy, Rebecca Hart ^a   Noonan, Gary ^a,b   Buchanan, Sharunda ^a   Jones, Robert L ^a   Flanders, W Dana ^a   Gotway Crawford, Carol ^a   Kim, Dennis ^b   Dignam, Timothy ^a   Daley, Walter R ^a   Jarrett, Jeff ^a   Eduardo, Eduard ^c   McGeehin, Michael A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood lead levels; Dust lead; Risk factors; Smelter; Soil lead; Torre n, Mexico

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAREGIVER; COMMUNITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICO; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMELTER; SOIL;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INFANT; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; MALE; METALLURGY; MEXICO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 0141781126     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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