Effects of occupational lead exposure on renal and nervous system of workers of traditional tile factories in Mashhad (northeast of Iran)

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 633-638

  Habibollah Nemati Karimooy, ^a   Mahdi Balali Mood, ^b   Hosseini, Mahmoud ^a   Shadmanfar, Sedigheh ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

lead; nephropathy; neuropathy; Occupational; poisoning; traditional tile factory

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; AGITATION; AMNESIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BABINSKI REFLEX; CONFUSION; CONVULSION; DROWSINESS; FATIGUE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INFERTILITY; INSOMNIA; IRAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; LEAD URINE LEVEL; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOOD DISORDER; MYALGIA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; TENDON REFLEX; TOOTH; TREMOR; URINE LEVEL; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; IRAN; KIDNEY DISEASES; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; LEAD POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 77957864027     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233710377774     Document Type: Article

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