The health effects of low level exposure to lead.
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Summary
This review examines some of the newer biomedical and epidemiolog ical information about lead at low dose and evaluates the recent studies to suggest some policy actions to redress the imbalance between the broad knowledge of lead's dangers and the limited steps to eliminate them.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1991-01-01
- Cited by
- 287
- References
- 100
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W2140549016
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:42288
Keywords
Affect (linguistics), Ethnic group, Health equity, Racism, Environmental health
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- Ethical, legal, and social issues: our children's future.
- Assessment of Environmental Distribution of Lead in Some Municipalities of South-Eastern Nigeria
- A simple simulation of adsorption equilibrium of Pb(II) on Andosols in the presence of dissolved humic substances for monitoring soil contamination
- Environmental Health Sciences in a Translational Research Framework: More than Benches and Bedsides
- Assessing the Relationship Between Hotspots of Lead and Hotspots of Crime
- Chronic low-level Pb exposure during development alters proteins involved in energy metabolism in auditory neurons of the brainstem
- Effect of environmental lead pollution on blood lead levels in traffic police constables in Islamabad, Pakistan.
- The Political Ecology of Early Childhood Lead Exposure at the New York African Burial Ground
- Health effects associated with wastewater treatment, disposal, and reuse
- Lead Contamination: An Important Topic for Biology Courses.
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- Health and air pollution in developing countries
- Phytoextraction of Lead from Contaminated Urban Soils by Panicum virgatum Enhanced with Phytohormone, EDTA, Benomyl, and Citric Acid Application
- Public Perception of Environmental Pollution in Warri, Nigeria
- Concentração de chumbo em dentes de crianças com alterações neurológicas
- Identification of confounders in the assessment of the relationship between lead exposure and child development.
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