Determinants of lead exposure in children on the outskirts of Salvador, Brazil

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2593-2603

  Menezes Filho, José Antonio ^a   De Sousa Viana, Gustavo Freitas ^a   Paes, Ciro Rodrigues ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blood; Children; Environmental tobacco smoking; Hair; Lead body burden

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION RATES; BLOOD LEAD LEVELS; BODY BURDEN; CHILDREN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTORS; DOMESTIC WASTES; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKING; GRAPHITE FURNACE ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; HAIR; INDUSTRIAL SITES; LEAD EXPOSURE; METALLURGICAL PLANTS; MULTIVARIATE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REFERENCE CONCENTRATION; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRABLE FRACTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SPEARMAN CORRELATION; TOXIC HEAVY METALS; WEAK CORRELATION;

BLOOD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INCINERATION; LEAD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOBACCO; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

RATING;

GRAPHITE; LEAD;

BLOOD; CHILD HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; HAIR; HEALTH RISK; LEAD; NERVOUS SYSTEM; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AGE; AIR ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAZIL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOMESTIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FURNACE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; HUMAN; INCINERATION; INFANT; LEAD POISONING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAL INDUSTRY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INFANT; LEAD; MALE; SUBURBAN POPULATION;

BAHIA; BRAZIL; SALVADOR;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84862854304     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2137-0     Document Type: Article

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