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Lead is a heavy metal polluting the environment, and its accumulation in animal or human bodies canhave neurotoxic and nephrotoxic effects on animals and human. Lead-contaminated chicken meat can bethe source of lead to human.
Djohan ., Charles Rangga Tabbu
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Lead Exposure and Motor Development
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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Lead exposure and the 2010 achievement test scores of children in New York counties
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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Two-year neurocognitive responses to first occupational lead exposure
OBJECTIVES: Lead exposure causes neurocognitive dysfunction in children, but its association with neurocognition in adults at current occupational exposure levels is uncertain mainly due to the lack of longitudinal studies.
Yu-Ling Yu +11 more
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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: Inappropriate Screening Practices?
Physician screening practices at a hospital-based, university-affiliated pediatric primary care center serving an urban high-risk population in Rochester, NY were evaluated to determine the feasibility of the 1991 Centers for Disease Control guidelines.
J Gordon Millichap
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Maternal blood lead level and its impact on cord blood hematological parameters
Introduction. More than 13 annual million deaths are caused by environmental pollutants worldwide. Urbanization, population growth, industrialization and globalization affect our lives both positively and negatively. Women can become lead exposed through
N. T. Gorgadze +7 more
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The relation between lead exposure and inflammation / endothelial dysfunction
Pb exposure is a well-known risk factor for inflammation including vessels. In our study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between Pb levels of exposed workers and the severity of inflammation/endothelial dysfunction.
Lutfiye Tutkun +5 more
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Background Lead has been associated with adverse health effects, especially neurocognitive and behavioural effects, in children. Communities living close to mining land are at risk of elevated exposure to lead.
Charlotte Mokoatle +3 more
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Reducing Lead Exposure in Children [PDF]
The near elimination of lead-related childhood fatalities and encephalopathy by the 1970s and the sharp decline in mean blood lead levels nationwide documented between 1976 and 1980 are two milestones in the fight against lead poisoning. In the case of the latter, we know the antecedents, such as controls on the sale, use, and lead content of lead ...
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