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Lead Exposure in Day Care Centers
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1995 The risk of lead poisoning among 155 of 234 eligible children (mean age, 4.8 years) enrolled in university affiliated day care centers with elevated environmental lead sources was determined at the Department of Pediatrics and University Hygienic ...
J Gordon Millichap
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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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The impact of imprecisely measured covariates on estimating gene-environment interactions [PDF]
, 2006 BACKGROUND The effects of measurement error in epidemiological exposures and confounders on estimated effects of exposure are well described, but the effects on estimates for gene-environment interactions has received rather less attention.
Cade, J.E. +2 more
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Quantifying the health burden misclassification from the use of different PM2.5 exposure tier models: A case study of London [PDF]
, 2020 Exposure to PM2.5 has been associated with increased mortality in urban areas. Hence, reducing the uncertainty in human exposure assessments is essential for more accurate health burden estimates.
Ewart, Ian +2 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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Lead Exposure in Infancy and Subsequent Growth in Beninese Children
Toxics, 2022 Studies suggest that elevated postnatal blood lead levels (BLLs) are negatively associated with child growth. This study aimed to investigate the associations of childhood BLLs at age one year and growth outcomes at age six years (n = 661) in a cohort of
Shukrullah Ahmadi +9 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 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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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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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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