A community-initiated study of blood lead levels of Nicaraguan children living near a battery factory. | Zendy

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A community-initiated study of blood lead levels of Nicaraguan children living near a battery factory.

Author(s) -

Carlos Morales Bonilla,

Evelyn A. Mauss

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.88.12.1843

Subject(s) - factory (object oriented programming) , environmental health , medicine , lead poisoning , battery (electricity) , lead exposure , government (linguistics) , blood lead level , psychiatry , cats , power (physics) , linguistics , physics , philosophy , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language

In response to requests by parents in Managua, Nicaragua, whose neighborhood borders a battery factory, 97 children were tested for blood lead, as were 30 children in a neighborhood without an obvious source of environmental lead.

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