Contribution of Lead in Dust to Children's Blood Lead
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Contribution of lead in dust to children's blood lead.
The importance of urban dust as a source of lead for young children is still disputed. Although blood-lead data from various population surveys usually show a peak concentration in early childhood, there is evidence that such a peak is small or absent altogether in children without much access to the general environment. An examination of those studies where groups of people in regions of low a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0091-6765
DOI: 10.2307/3429570