Predicting blood lead levels from current and past environmental data in Europe

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 5101-5110

  Bierkens, J ^a   Smolders, R ^a   Van Holderbeke, M ^a   Cornelis, C ^a  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Blood lead levels; Environmental health impact assessment; European comparison; Human biomonitoring; Lead environmental concentrations; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; AGE-RELATED; BIOMONITORING; BLOOD LEAD; BLOOD-LEAD LEVELS; DATA AVAILABILITY; DATA SETS; DIETARY INTAKES; ENVIRONMENTAL COMPARTMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; EUROPEAN COMPARISON; EXPOSURE SOURCES; GENERAL POPULATION; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH OUTCOMES; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN BIOMONITORING; INTEGRATED MONITORING; LEAD CONCENTRATION; LEAD EMISSION; PB CONCENTRATION; REGIONAL SCALE; REGRESSION MODEL; SUB-POPULATIONS; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS;

AIR INTAKES; BLOOD; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; DUST; FORECASTING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HEALTH; NUTRITION; POPULATION STATISTICS; POTABLE WATER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS;

LEAD;

DRINKING WATER; LEAD;

BIOMONITORING; BLOOD; CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH IMPACT; LEAD; POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; POLLUTION; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAD; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 80053459993     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.08.034     Document Type: Article

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