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The Lead Exposure among Lead Workers: An Epidemiological Study from West Turkey [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2009 "nBackground: This study has been conducted on workers from several workplaces where materials containing lead are used during December 2006-April 2007 in Eskişehir, a city of the Middle Anatolian Region of Turkey."nMethods: The study and ...
M Tozun, A Unsal, B Sirmagul
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Blood metabolic fingerprinting of rats, subjected to subchronic lead exposure
Public Health and Toxicology, 2021 Introduction Environmental pollution with heavy metals is vital issue in the present time. Lead, as one of the environmental contaminators, deserves attention due to its applicability in human activity and its xenobiotic character. Methods In this study
Aleksei I. Chemezov +4 more
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Asymptomatic Heavy Lead Exposure
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1996 Three asymptomatic children, ages 34, 23, and 26 months, with blood lead levels >100 mcg/dL on routine screening are reported from the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD.
J Gordon Millichap
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Testing Homes for Potential Sources of Lead Exposure as a High‐School Science Project
GeoHealth, 2021 High‐school students tested soil, paint, and water for lead (Pb) in a total of 80 houses in their town of Pelham, New York, where blood‐Pb data indicate relatively high levels of child exposure.
Evan M. Sefchick +5 more
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Lead poisoning linked to occupational exposure - case reports
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2019 Introduction: Lead is one of the oldest widely used industrial metals. Throughout the ages, its significant toxicity caused poisoning of exposed people. Even today occupational exposure remains a significant hazard.
Andrzej Kościuk +3 more
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Diseases, 2018 In this cross-sectional study, lead exposure among those with a history in military environments was examined. Systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) are clinical markers of blood pressure, while gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT)
Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi +1 more
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Blood Lead Levels among Children in Yaoundé Cameroon
Frontiers in Public Health, 2017 Blood lead levels (BLLs) are a useful indication of a population exposure to lead from environmental sources. No previous published study had reported BLLs in Cameroon.
Francisca Monebenimp +5 more
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Altered diversity of bacterial communities in two Drosophila species under laboratory conditions and lead exposure [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2021 The composition of microbiota affects different traits of Drosophila throughout its life cycle and represents an important part of the adaptive response to environmental changes, such as increased levels of accumulated heavy metals in their habitats.
Beribaka Mirjana B. +6 more
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Lead Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease among Young and Middle-Aged Adults
Medical Sciences, 2019 Lead and its effects on cardiovascular-related markers were explored in this cross-sectional study of young adults (18−44 years) and middle-aged adults (45−65 years) from the United States using the National Health and Nutrition Examination ...
Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi
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Chronic Stress and Cardiovascular Disease among Individuals Exposed to Lead: A Pilot Study
Diseases, 2020 Chronic stress and cardiovascular disease risk were explored in a predominately middle-aged adult population exposed to elevated lead levels in this cross-sectional study using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from ...
Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi +1 more
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