Relationship between lead mining and blood lead levels in children.
Arch Environ Health
; 53(6): 414-23, 1998.
Article
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| ID: mdl-9886161
ABSTRACT
The authors studied blood lead levels of 226 randomly selected children, aged 6-92 mo, who lived in either a lead-mining area or a nonmining area, and 69 controls. The authors sought to determine to what extent mining activities contributed to blood lead levels in the children. The mean blood lead levels in the study and control groups were 6.52 microg/dl and 3.43 microg/dl, respectively. The corresponding proportions of children with elevated blood lead levels were 17% and 3%. Soil and dust lead levels were up to 10 times higher in the study than the control group. Elevated blood lead levels appeared to result from exposure to both lead-mining waste and lead-based paint. Mining waste was the cause of the higher prevalence of elevated blood lead levels in these children.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Resíduos Perigosos
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Exposição Ambiental
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Chumbo
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Intoxicação por Chumbo
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Mineração
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Arch Environ Health
Ano de publicação:
1998
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos