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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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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Strain specific effects of low level lead exposure on associative learning and memory in rats. [PDF]
, 2017 Exposure to lead (Pb) remains a significant public health concern. Lead exposure in early life impairs the normal development of numerous cognitive and neurobehavioral processes.
Schneider, J. S., Verma, Megha
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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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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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Lead exposure and the 2010 achievement test scores of children in New York counties
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2012 Background Lead is toxic to cognitive and behavioral functioning in children even at levels well below those producing physical symptoms. Continuing efforts in the U.S.
Strayhorn Jillian C, Strayhorn Joseph M
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Long-term, low-dose lead exposure alters the gonadotropin-releasing hormone system in the male rat. [PDF]
, 2002 Lead is a male reproductive toxicant. Data suggest that rats dosed with relatively high levels of lead acetate for short periods of time induced changes in the hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) at the molecular level, but these changes ...
Chapin, Robert E +5 more
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Ataxia and Early Lead Exposure
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1996 The effect of chronic exposure to lead on postural balance was studied in 162 six-year-old children examined in the Department of Environmental Health, and Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati Medical School, Cincinnati, OH.
J Gordon Millichap
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 ObjectivesThis study investigates the trends of blood lead levels in US pregnant women based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2001 to 2018.MethodsA total of 1,230 pregnant women were included in this study.
Jing Wang +5 more
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Comment on Martinez-Garcia et al. 'Heavy metals in human bones in different historical epochs'. [PDF]
, 2006 Martínez-García et al. (Sci. Tot Env. 348:51–72) have examined heavy metal exposure of humans in the Cartagena region using analysis of archaeological bones.
Andrew Millard +12 more
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