Adult Lead Exposure: Time for Change
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Adult Lead Exposure: Time for Change
We have assembled this mini-monograph on adult lead exposure to provide guidance to clinicians and public health professionals, to summarize recent thinking on lead biomarkers and their relevance to epidemiologic research, and to review two key lead-related outcomes, namely, cardiovascular and cognitive. The lead standards of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration are woefully o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9782