Renal function in relation to low-level environmental lead exposure
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Low-level environmental exposure to lead unmasked as silent killer.
Since the dawn of human civilization, lead has been a ubiquitous environmental pollutant.1 In 370 BC, Hippocrates described colic in a lead worker.2 The industrial application of lead continues to the present day. Lead is a toxic metal that, during a lifetime, accumulates in the human body.1 Recent evidence3–6 suggests that lead affects human health at levels of exposure that, until now, were c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfy279