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Prevalence of elevated blood lead levels among pregnant women and sources of lead exposure in rural Bangladesh: A case control study

Environmental Research, 2018
Prenatal and early childhood lead exposures impair cognitive development. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) among pregnant women in rural Bangladesh and to identify sources of lead exposure.
J. Forsyth, S. Islam, S. Parvez, R. Raqib, Sajjadur Rahman, Marie Muehe, S. Fendorf, S. Luby   +7 more
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Comparison of Blood Lead Levels in Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease and Healthy People

American Journal of Alzheimers Disease & Other Dementias, 2018
Background: It is argued that breakdown of β-amyloid in the brain causes deposition of senescent plaques and therefore Alzheimer’s disease (AD). One of the influential factors for increasing level of this protein is exposure to lead.
B. Fathabadi, Mohammad Dehghanifiroozabadi, J. Aaseth, Gholamreza Sharifzadeh, S. Nakhaee, Ali Rajabpour-Sanati, Alireza Amirabadizadeh, O. Mehrpour   +7 more
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Prenatal Exposure to Mercury, Manganese, and Lead and Adverse Birth Outcomes in Suriname: A Population-Based Birth Cohort Study

Toxics, 2022
Globally, adverse birth outcomes are increasingly linked to prenatal exposure to environmental contaminants, such as mercury, manganese, and lead. This study aims to assess an association between prenatal exposure to mercury, manganese, and lead and the ...
Vinoj H. Sewberath Misser, Ashna D. Hindori-Mohangoo, Arti Shankar, Jeffrey K. Wickliffe, Maureen Y. Lichtveld, Dennis R. A. Mans   +5 more
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The association between childhood blood lead levels and proximity to airports in Colorado

Discover Environment
Background In October 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a final endangerment finding that leaded aviation gasoline (avgas) contributes to air pollution that is harmful to public health.
Kevin Berg, Megan Snow, Kristy Richardson   +2 more
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Association between Blood Lead Levels and Delta-Aminolevulinic Acid Dehydratase in Pregnant Women

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2017
Blood lead levels (BLLs) and delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) activity are considered biomarkers of lead exposure and lead toxicity, respectively. The present study was designed to investigate the association between BLLs and ALAD activity in
Osmel La-Llave-León, Edna M. Méndez-Hernández, F. Castellanos-Juárez, Eloísa Esquivel-Rodríguez, F. Vazquez-Alaniz, Ada A. Sandoval-Carrillo, G. Garcia-Vargas, J. Duarte-Sustaita, Jorge L. Candelas-Rangel, J. Salas-Pacheco   +9 more
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Association Between Blood Lead Level With High Blood Pressure in US (NHANES 1999–2018)

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Background Lead is a toxic metal for human health, but the effect on blood pressure (BP) is still controversial. The object of this study was to demonstrate the association between blood lead levels with BP and hypertension (HTN).
Ziyao Huang
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Blood lead levels in pregnant women and the neonate [PDF]

, 1997
Population studies carried out during the 1980s had shown that the Maltese population was characterized by high blood lead (PbB) levels. These high levels appeared to be a feature at all age groups including neonates.
Sammut, Michael, Savona-Ventura, Charles, Vassallo, A., Licari, Lucianne   +3 more
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Distribution of blood lead and cadmium levels in healthy children aged 0 to 18 years and analysis of related influencing factors in Henan, China: data findings from 2017 to 2022

Italian Journal of Pediatrics
Background There is still a lack of data on blood lead levels (BLLs) and blood lead levels (BLLs) in healthy children of all ages from 0 to 18 years in China.
Hui Yan, Bo Zhai, Ruiling Feng, Penggao Wang, Fang Yang, Yang Zhou   +5 more
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Blood Lead Levels in Women of Child-Bearing Age in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review

Frontiers in Public Health, 2018
This paper reported available studies on blood lead level of childbearing age in Sub-Saharan African women. PubMed and Google scholar databases were searched for original articles reporting blood lead levels of women of childbearing age in Sub-Saharan ...
Onyinyechi Bede-Ojimadu, C. Amadi, O. Orisakwe   +2 more
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Do Low Levels of Blood Lead Reduce Children’s Future Test Scores?

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018
We construct a unique individual-level dataset linking preschool blood lead levels with third grade test scores for Rhode Island children born 1997–2005.
A. Aizer, Janet Currie, P. Simon, P. Vivier   +3 more
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