Environmental lead levels in a coastal city of India: The lead burden continues

Indian Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 260-266

  Vishwanath, Prashant ^a   Devegowda, Devananda ^a   Prashant, Akila ^a   Nayak, Narendra ^b   D'Souza, Vivian ^c   Venkatesh, Thuppil ^d   Scott, Clark ^e  

^a JSS MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b B N Laboratories   (India)

^c KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^d ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental lead levels; Mangalore; X ray fluorimeter

Indexed keywords

LEAD; PAINT; POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLUOROMETER; HEALTH CARE COST; INDIA; INFANT MORTALITY; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; POLLUTION; PRODUCTIVITY; SEA POLLUTION; SOIL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION; X RAY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; MALE; POLLUTANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY; URBAN POPULATION;

CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INDUSTRY; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; MALE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84881107233     PISSN: 00195359     EISSN: 19983654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5359.115737     Document Type: Article

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