Lead poisoning in United States-bound refugee children: Thailand-Burma border, 2009

Pediatrics

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Mitchell, Tarissa ^a,b   Jentes, Emily ^a   Ortega, Luis ^a,c   Sucosky, Marissa Scalia ^a   Jefferies, Taran ^a   Bajcevic, Predrag ^d   Parr, Valentina ^d   Jones, Warren ^d   Brown, Mary Jean ^a   Painter, John ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Centers for Disease Control CDC Thailand Field Station   (Thailand)

^d INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anemia; Environmental exposure; Lead poisoning; Refugees

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; LEAD;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BATTERY INDUSTRY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CAR; CAR BATTERY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYANMAR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; THAILAND; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED STATES; VENOUS BLOOD;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; MALE; MYANMAR; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REFUGEES; THAILAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863407150     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-1218     Document Type: Article

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