elevated blood lead
Screening for Elevated Blood Lead Levels
... of elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) in children, lead remains a common, pre- ventable, environmental health ...that lead exposure is still common in certain communities in the United ...
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Community Characteristics Associated With Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children
... had elevated blood lead levels were comparable with clinic-based risk ...an elevated blood lead level can be manipulated to ob- tain the most cost-effective screening programs ...
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Development of a Population-specific Risk Assessment to Predict Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Santa Clara County, California
... Questions Used in Study 5 to Determine Child’s Risk Classification for Elevated Blood Lead Level at Santa Clara County.. (5CC) Public Clinics, 1993.[r] ...
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy of Regional Brain Structure in a 10-Year-Old Boy With Elevated Blood Lead Levels
... with elevated blood lead levels when he was 38 months old, after a venous blood ...Documented blood lead levels ranged from 51 mg/dL at age 38 months to 44 mg/dL at 41 ...
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Elevated Blood Lead Levels and Blood Lead Screening Among US Children Aged One to Five Years: 1988–1994
... for elevated blood lead lev- els were more frequently ...with elevated blood lead levels, only one third had been tested ...
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Targeted Screening for Elevated Blood Lead Levels: Populations at High Risk
... for lead poisoning permits effective use of targeted screening for elevated blood lead levels. Addition- ally, identification of risk permits communities to focus education and preventive ...
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Accuracy of lead risk assessment questionnaire in predicting elevated blood lead levels in children
... CDC lead risk assessment questionnaire in identifying cases with elevated blood lead ...of lead toxicity is high in our pediatric population and our risk assessment questionnaire is an ...
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Elevated blood lead levels among unskilled construction workers in Jimma, Ethiopia
... in lead smelting and refining industries and those who deal with lead during the manufacturing process, construction workers and people who work in pottery and ceramic industries could all be exposed to ...
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Elevated blood lead and cadmium levels associated with chronic infections among non-smokers in a cross-sectional analysis of NHANES data
... All analyses were conducted using SAS v9.3 (SAS, Inc., Cary, NC, USA). Because cigarette smoking is highly correlated with toxic heavy metal exposures [27], we re- stricted our analyses to a domain of non-smokers, de- ...
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Screening for Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children and Pregnant Women
... There is good-quality evidence that chelation treatment in asymptomatic children does not improve neurodevel- opmental outcomes and is associated with a slight dim- inution in cognitive performance. Chelation therapy may ...
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A Comparison of Elevated Blood Lead Levels Among Children Living in Foster Care, Their Siblings, and the General Population
... In Philadelphia, the majority of children enter fos- ter care while receiving social services through a program called Services to Children in Their Own Homes (SCOH). SCOH is provided to families iden- tified to be at ...
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Moderately Elevated Blood Lead Levels: Effects on Neuropsychologic Functioning in Children
... Investigations of moderately elevated lead levels and children’s cognitive functioning have yielded conflicting results, although studies showing no effects used measures of limited sens[r] ...
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Elevated Blood Lead Levels and Reading Readiness at the Start of Kindergarten
... of end-of-grade test scores, the magni- tude of the difference in fall PALS-K scores associated with lead exposure in our study was similar to the difference associated with eligibility for free and reduced lunch, ...
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Blood Lead Screening Practices Among US Pediatricians
... Three years after the Centers for Dis- ease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines for the management of elevated blood lead levels, a slight majority of primary-care pediatricians[r] ...
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Development of a Screening Tool for Prediction of Children at Risk for Lead Exposure in a Midwestern Clinical Setting
... The results of this study suggest that a community- specific risk questionnaire may be useful for assessing risk where the prevalence of elevated blood lead 1ev- els is low and the sourc[r] ...
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Prevalence of Excess Lead Absorption and Associated Risk Factors in Children Enrolled in a Midwestern Health Maintenance Organization
... For children living in housing built before 1950, positive correlations were found between elevated blood lead levels and peeling paint (P < .01) or remodeling (P < .0001).. Conclu[r] ...
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Identification of Children At Risk for Lead Poisoning: An Evaluation of Routine Pediatric Blood Lead Screening in an HMO-Insured Population
... Our results suggest that universal routine screen- ing for elevated blood lead levels in children in an employed, HMO-insured population is probably not warranted on grounds of prevalenc[r] ...
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Trends in preschool lead exposure, mental retardation, and scholastic achievement: association or causation?
... Elevated blood lead can be due to lead paint chip ingestion, inhaled air lead, and other pathways, but lead in paint and gasoline had especially pervasive effects due to ...
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... Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program to eliminate the elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) of 36 ...to lead-free housing were analyzed in terms of their effectiveness in ...
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Lead Exposure in Children: Prevention, Detection, and Management
... excess lead exposure, and prevent further exposure to ...of elevated blood lead concentrations in specific ...transitional lead-safe housing assis- tance, and follow-up for individual ...
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