Exposure of lead to mothers and their new born infants, residents of industrial and domestic areas of Pakistan

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3021-3030

  Kazi, Tasneem G ^a   Shah, Faheem ^a   Shaikh, Haffeezur Rehman ^b   Afridi, Hassan Imran ^a   Shah, Afzal ^c   Naeemullah, ^a   Arain, Sadaf Sadia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SINDH   (Pakistan)

^b LIAQUAT UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Cord blood; Maternal blood; Mother child pairs; Prenatal lead exposure; Scalp hair

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; HAIR; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; MALE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PAKISTAN; POLLUTANT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HAIR; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEAD; MALE; MOTHERS; PAKISTAN; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893739146     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-2223-7     Document Type: Article

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