Reduction of elevated blood lead levels in children in North Carolina and Vermont, 1996-1999

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 981-985

  Dignam, Timothy A ^a   Lojo, Jose ^b   Meyer, Pamela A ^a   Norman, Ed ^c   Sayre, Amy ^d   Flanders, W Dana ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c North Carolina Division of Environmental Health   (United States)

^d VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood lead level; Capillary; Chelation; Children; Surveillance; Venous

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; UNITED STATES; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

CHELATION THERAPY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEAD POISONING; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VERMONT;

EID: 46749102922     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10548     Document Type: Article

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