Effects of blood lead and cadmium levels on the functioning of children with behaviour disorders in the family environment

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 241-246

  Szkup Jabłońska, Małgorzata ^a   Karakiewicz, Beata ^a   Grochans, Elzbieta ^a   Jurczak, Anna ^a   Nowak Starz, Grazyna ^b   Rotter, Iwona ^a   Prokopowicz, Adam ^c  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b Natural and Medical University ^*  (Poland)

^c Institute of Industrial Medicine and Community Health   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Child behaviour disorders; Lead

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; LEAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CADMIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; IMPULSIVENESS; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; TRACE METAL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; CADMIUM; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; LEAD; MALE; POLAND; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84863508551     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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