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Factors Associated With High Blood Lead Levels in a Sample of 100 Children in Tehran

BACKGROUND: Lead is considered a neurotoxic agent. We aimed to evaluate the blood lead level (BLL) in young population and determine probable risk factors of lead exposure in Iran. METHODS: In a cross-sectional study, a total of 100 children were entered and their BLLs were checked. RESULTS: In all,...

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Autores principales: Zamani, Nasim, Gholami, Narges, Hassanian-Moghaddam, Hossein, Farnaghi, Fariba, Gachkar, Latif
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6434433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30936761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1179556518825451
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author Zamani, Nasim
Gholami, Narges
Hassanian-Moghaddam, Hossein
Farnaghi, Fariba
Gachkar, Latif
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description BACKGROUND: Lead is considered a neurotoxic agent. We aimed to evaluate the blood lead level (BLL) in young population and determine probable risk factors of lead exposure in Iran. METHODS: In a cross-sectional study, a total of 100 children were entered and their BLLs were checked. RESULTS: In all, 25 and 8 patients had BLLs above 5 and 10 µg/dL, respectively. There was a significant univariate correlation between BLL and place of living, water pipe type, using dairy products, and stature in both cut-offs of 5 and 10 µg/dL. Binary regression analysis showed that pipe type was associated with high BLLs at cut-offs of 5 and 10 µg/dL, respectively. Also, there was an association between 50th percentile of stature for age and cut-off of 5 µg/dL. CONCLUSIONS: Higher BLLs may be seen in short stature pediatric population. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polypropylene water pipes may even cause more release of lead and result in higher absorption of this metal in the pediatric population.
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spelling pubmed-64344332019-04-01 Factors Associated With High Blood Lead Levels in a Sample of 100 Children in Tehran Zamani, Nasim Gholami, Narges Hassanian-Moghaddam, Hossein Farnaghi, Fariba Gachkar, Latif Clin Med Insights Pediatr Original Research BACKGROUND: Lead is considered a neurotoxic agent. We aimed to evaluate the blood lead level (BLL) in young population and determine probable risk factors of lead exposure in Iran. METHODS: In a cross-sectional study, a total of 100 children were entered and their BLLs were checked. RESULTS: In all, 25 and 8 patients had BLLs above 5 and 10 µg/dL, respectively. There was a significant univariate correlation between BLL and place of living, water pipe type, using dairy products, and stature in both cut-offs of 5 and 10 µg/dL. Binary regression analysis showed that pipe type was associated with high BLLs at cut-offs of 5 and 10 µg/dL, respectively. Also, there was an association between 50th percentile of stature for age and cut-off of 5 µg/dL. CONCLUSIONS: Higher BLLs may be seen in short stature pediatric population. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polypropylene water pipes may even cause more release of lead and result in higher absorption of this metal in the pediatric population. SAGE Publications 2019-03-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6434433/ /pubmed/30936761 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1179556518825451 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Gholami, Narges
Hassanian-Moghaddam, Hossein
Farnaghi, Fariba
Gachkar, Latif
Factors Associated With High Blood Lead Levels in a Sample of 100 Children in Tehran
title Factors Associated With High Blood Lead Levels in a Sample of 100 Children in Tehran
title_full Factors Associated With High Blood Lead Levels in a Sample of 100 Children in Tehran
title_fullStr Factors Associated With High Blood Lead Levels in a Sample of 100 Children in Tehran
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title_short Factors Associated With High Blood Lead Levels in a Sample of 100 Children in Tehran
title_sort factors associated with high blood lead levels in a sample of 100 children in tehran
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6434433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30936761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1179556518825451
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