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Environmental and Household Sources Associated with Elevated Blood Lead Levels Among Mexican Women of Childbearing Age: A Community-Based Screening Study

Toxics
Background: Lead (Pb) exposure remains a significant public health concern, particularly among women of childbearing age, because of its adverse effects on maternal–child health.
Larissa Betanzos-Robledo, Guadalupe Estrada-Gutierrez, Hector Lamadrid-Figueroa, Karen Vázquez-Gutiérrez, Martha María Téllez-Rojo, Manish Arora, Alejandra Cantoral   +6 more
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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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Biomarkers of Lead Exposure.

INDUSTRIAL HEALTH, 2000
Biomarkers of exposure, effect, and susceptibility are reviewed in relation to lead exposure. Of the biomarkers of lead exposure, blood lead (Pb-B), mainly red cell lead, is a representative of soft tissue lead, and most widely used as measures of body burden and absorbed (internal) doses of lead.
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Lead exposure and child behavior [PDF]

Journal of Safety Research, 1992
OBJECTIVES. Unlike cognitive impairments associated with lead exposure, lead-associated child behavior problems have been difficult to specify, particularly in young children. METHODS. The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale were used as the outcome and confounding variables, respectively, of major
W G, Sciarillo, G, Alexander, K P, Farrell   +2 more
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EFFECT OF TRANSPLACENTAL-FETAL BARRIER AND LACTATIONAL TRANSFER OF LEAD ON PROLACTIN GENE EXPRESSION, DNA FRAGMENTATION AND CHANGES IN THE BRAIN OF EXPOSED MOTHERS AND THEIR OFFSPRING IN ALBINO RATS [PDF]

Assiut Veterinary Medical Journal, 2015
The present study was conducted to report the effect of prenatal and postnatal treatment of lead (Pb) on some antioxidant defense system in cerebrum and cerebellum of dams and of their foeti, histopathological lesions and DNA fragmentation in brain of ...
A.A. KHALAF, BR. ABDEL–HALIM, WALAA A. MOSELHY, MARWA A. IBRAHIM   +3 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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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen, Calogero Virgone, Antje Redlich, Michael Abele, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Maja Mazic Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Charlotte Rigaud, Bilgehan Yalcin, Rainer Claus, Christian Vokuhl, Constantin Lapa, Jörg Fuchs, Segolene Hescot, Thomas Walter, Julien Hadoux, Daniel Orbach   +23 more
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Lead Exposure and Motor Development

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1993
The neuromotor assessment of 245 six-year-old urban inner-city children enrolled in the Cincinnati Lead Study is reported from the Departments of Environmental Health and Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and the Children’s ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasm of the Pancreas in Children and Adolescents: Expert Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm of the pancreas (SPN) is a rare low‐grade malignant exocrine pancreatic tumor, mostly discovered during the second decade of life in females, with a very good prognosis, provided microscopically complete surgical excision is achieved.
Sabine Irtan, Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almarez, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Maja Cesen, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Louise Galmiche, Jorg Fuchs, Sarah Braungart, Bilgehan Yalcin, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +18 more
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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, Barnabas Obeng-Gyasi   +1 more
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