Original Contribution Association of Blood Lead and Tibia Lead with Blood Pressure and Hypertension in a Community Sample of Older Adults
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1 Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. 2 Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. 3 Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. 4 Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. 5 Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.
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