The relationship between blood lead levels and morbidities among workers employed in a factory manufacturing lead-acid storage battery

International Journal of Environmental Health Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 246-255

  Kalahasthi, Ravi Babu ^a   Barman, Tapu ^a   Rajmohan, H R ^a  

^a Regional Occupational Health Centre (Southern)   (India)

Author keywords

Blood lead levels; Lead acid storage battery worker; Morbidities

Indexed keywords

ACID; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; LEAD;

ALCOHOL; BLOOD; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOLOGY; HEMOGLOBIN; LEAD; MANUFACTURING; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; URINE; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BATTERY INDUSTRY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LABORATORY TEST; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MORBIDITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TOOTH DISEASE; URINE LEVEL;

ADULT; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; BLOOD PRESSURE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LEAD; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MORBIDITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

EID: 84898058936     PISSN: 09603123     EISSN: 13691619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603123.2013.809702     Document Type: Article

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