Lead Exposure in Adult Males in Urban Transvaal Province, South Africa during the Apartheid Era

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Hess, Catherine A ^a   Cooper, Matthew J ^b   Smith, Martin J ^a   Trueman, Clive N ^b   Schutkowski, Holger ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE LEVEL; CADAVER; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEMOGRAPHY; FEMUR; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEGRO; NEWBORN; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE AND BONES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LEAD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874736031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058146     Document Type: Article

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