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Environment International, 2022 Background: Lead is a toxic chemical of public health concern, however limited biomarkers are able to reconstruct prior lead exposures in early-life when biospecimens are not collected and stored.
Lucia Gerbi +10 more
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Lead Exposure: Inappropriate Screening Practices?
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1994 Physician screening practices at a hospital-based, university-affiliated pediatric primary care center serving an urban high-risk population in Rochester, NY were evaluated to determine the feasibility of the 1991 Centers for Disease Control guidelines.
J Gordon Millichap
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Study Of Blood Lead Levels, Hemoglobin & Plasma AscorbicAcid In ACarCompanyWelders
Salāmat-i kār-i Īrān, 2006 Background and Aims: Background and aim: About 30-40% of lead entered the respiratorysystem, is absorbed to the bloodstream. Some studies have demonstrated that cigarette smokingresults in blood-lead levels elevation as well as decreased blood ascorbic ...
AR Dorosti, J Shahrabi
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Blood Lead Levels and Decreased Kidney Function in a Population-Based Cohort.
American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 2018 BACKGROUND Environmental lead exposure has been associated with decreased kidney function, but evidence from large prospective cohort studies examining low exposure levels is scarce.
F. Harari +10 more
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The CDC blood lead reference value for children: time for a change
Environmental Health, 2019 The purpose of this article is to consider alternate uses of the blood lead reference value for children. There are two possible approaches. Historically the reference value has been used to guide clinical and public interventions for individual children.
Jerome A. Paulson, Mary Jean Brown
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Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2017 Importance Many children in the United States and around the world are exposed to lead, a developmental neurotoxin. The long-term cognitive and socioeconomic consequences of lead exposure are uncertain.
Aaron Reuben +9 more
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Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2019 Importance Elevated blood lead levels in children are associated with neurologic effects such as behavioral and learning problems, lower IQ, hyperactivity, hearing problems, and impaired growth.
S. Curry +16 more
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Blood lead levels in children living close to the antimony and lead mining-milling-smelting complex in Serbia [PDF]
Tehnika, 2018 Objective of this cross-sectional study was to determine blood lead concentrations in children, living in the vicinity of the Zajača lead-antimony mining-milling-smelting complex. Other aims were to compare blood lead levels (BLLs) of exposed children to
Matić Branislava I. +2 more
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Low Level Lead Exposures and IQ
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1992 The Port Pirie cohort study which began in 1979 at the Department of Community Medicine, University of Adelaide, Australia, has been followed into the primary school age range and examines intelligence at the age of 7 years in relation to lifetime ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Laboratory Measurement Implications of Decreasing Childhood Blood Lead Levels
Pediatrics, 2017 This article aims to help pediatric health care professionals in understanding the measurement and clinical interpretation challenges of low blood lead measurements (
K. Caldwell +7 more
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