Exposure of U.S. children to residential dust lead, 1999-2004: I. Housing and demographic factors

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 461-467

  Gaitens, Joanna M ^a   Dixon, Sherry L ^b   Jacobs, David E ^b   Nagaraja, Jyothi ^c   Strauss, Warren ^c   Wilson, Jonathan W ^b   Ashley, Peter J ^d  

^a Healthy Housing Solutions Inc   (United States)

^b National Center for Healthy Housing   (United States)

^c BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Special Needs Assistance Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust lead; Housing; Lead; National health and nutrition examination survey; NHANES

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNICITY; GEOMETRY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HOUSE DUST; HOUSING; HUMAN; INCOME; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOGRAPHY; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOUSING; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LEAD; LOGISTIC MODELS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 64049089677     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11917     Document Type: Article

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