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Prevalence of elevated blood lead levels among pregnant women and sources of lead exposure in rural Bangladesh: A case control study

Prenatal and early childhood lead exposures impair cognitive development. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) among pregnant women in rural Bangladesh and to identify sources of lead exposure. We analyzed the BLLs of 430 pregnant women randomly selected from rura...

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Autores principales: Forsyth, Jenna E., Saiful Islam, M., Parvez, Sarker Masud, Raqib, Rubhana, Sajjadur Rahman, M., Marie Muehe, E., Fendorf, Scott, Luby, Stephen P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6143383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29804028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2018.04.019