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Blood lead concentration and its associated factors in preschool children in eastern Iran: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Lead is a toxic metal that affects almost every organ in the body. Children are more susceptible to lead toxicity because they ingest non-food items (pica), have oral exploratory habits, absorb more substantial amounts of ingested lead compared to adults, and have a developing central ne...

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Autores principales: Zardast, Mahmoud, Khorashadi-Zadeh, Seyedeh Samira, Nakhaee, Samaneh, Amirabadizadeh, Alireza, Mehrpour, Omid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7493850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32938436
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-02302-7