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Editorial: Lead Risk Assessment and Health Effects
In 1980, Clair C. Patterson stated: “Sometime in the near future it probably will be shown that the older urban areas of the United States have been rendered more or less uninhabitable by the millions of tons of poisonous industrial lead residues that have accumulated in cities during the past centu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924044/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27314364 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13060587 |
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description | In 1980, Clair C. Patterson stated: “Sometime in the near future it probably will be shown that the older urban areas of the United States have been rendered more or less uninhabitable by the millions of tons of poisonous industrial lead residues that have accumulated in cities during the past century”. We live in the near future about which this quote expressed concern. This special volume of 19 papers explores the status of scientific evidence regarding Dr. Patterson’s statement on the habitability of the environments of communities. Authors from 10 countries describe a variety of lead issues in the context of large and small communities, smelter sites, lead industries, lead-based painted houses, and vehicle fuel treated with lead additives dispersed by traffic. These articles represent the microcosm of the larger health issues associated with lead. The challenges of lead risk require a concerted global action for primary prevention. |
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spelling | pubmed-49240442016-07-05 Editorial: Lead Risk Assessment and Health Effects Mielke, Howard W. Int J Environ Res Public Health Editorial In 1980, Clair C. Patterson stated: “Sometime in the near future it probably will be shown that the older urban areas of the United States have been rendered more or less uninhabitable by the millions of tons of poisonous industrial lead residues that have accumulated in cities during the past century”. We live in the near future about which this quote expressed concern. This special volume of 19 papers explores the status of scientific evidence regarding Dr. Patterson’s statement on the habitability of the environments of communities. Authors from 10 countries describe a variety of lead issues in the context of large and small communities, smelter sites, lead industries, lead-based painted houses, and vehicle fuel treated with lead additives dispersed by traffic. These articles represent the microcosm of the larger health issues associated with lead. The challenges of lead risk require a concerted global action for primary prevention. MDPI 2016-06-14 2016-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4924044/ /pubmed/27314364 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13060587 Text en © 2016 by the author; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
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title | Editorial: Lead Risk Assessment and Health Effects |
title_full | Editorial: Lead Risk Assessment and Health Effects |
title_fullStr | Editorial: Lead Risk Assessment and Health Effects |
title_full_unstemmed | Editorial: Lead Risk Assessment and Health Effects |
title_short | Editorial: Lead Risk Assessment and Health Effects |
title_sort | editorial: lead risk assessment and health effects |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924044/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27314364 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13060587 |
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