Identifying and managing adverse environmental health effects: 3. Lead exposure

MD Sanborn, A Abelsohn, M Campbell, E Weir - Cmaj, 2002 - Can Med Assoc
LEAD LEVELS IN NORTH AMERICAN CHILDREN AND ADULTS have declined in the past
3 decades, but lead persists in the environment in lead paint, old plumbing and …

Lead and children: clinical management for family physicians

AR Abelsohn, M Sanborn - Canadian Family Physician, 2010 - cfp.ca
OBJECTIVE To provide family physicians with a practical, evidence-based approach to
screening for and preventing children's exposure to lead. SOURCES OF INFORMATION …

Impact on blood Pb levels of maternal and early infant feeding practices of First Nation Cree in the Mushkegowuk Territory of northern Ontario, Canada

RM Hanning, R Sandhu, A MacMillan, L Moss… - Journal of …, 2003 - pubs.rsc.org
Exposure to Pb in-utero and in infancy has been associated with cognitive risk, even at low
blood Pb levels of 0.48–0.96 µmol L− 1. Based on the hypothesis that wild game consumed …

The content of lead in some organs and tissues of Hereford bull-calves

KN Narozhnyh, YV Efanova… - E3S Web of …, 2013 - e3s-conferences.org
The content of lead in muscles, liver, spleen and testicles is studied in Hereford bulls, aged
18 months. Selectivity of Pb accumulation is identified in organs and tissues. Pb level in …

Blood lead concentrations and iron deficiency in Canadian aboriginal infants

ND Willows, K Gray-Donald - Science of the total environment, 2002 - Elsevier
Aboriginal Cree infants living in northern Quebec who were 9 months of age were screened
for anemia, iron deficiency and elevated blood lead concentrations. Of the 314 infants who …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of serum lead levels in children with constipation and normal controls in northern Iran

S Maleknejad, A Heidarzadeh, M Rahbar… - Iranian journal of …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective Constipation is a major debilitating problem in children. We aimed to assess the
serum lead levels of 2-13 year-old children complaining from constipation who referred to …

Reformulating lead-based paint as a problem in Canada

K O'Grady, A Perron - American Journal of Public Health, 2011 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Leaded gasoline was officially removed from the Canadian market in December 1990. The
removal of a major lead source and the subsequent decline in children's blood lead levels …

Environmental and potential human health legacies of non-industrial sources of lead in a Canadian urban landscape–the case study of St John's, Newfoundland

T Bell, S Campbell, DGE Liverman… - International Geology …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Residential soil and house dust were collected in St John's to assess the levels of lead
exposure and potential human health risk. Although St John's does not have an identified …

Lead levels in Canadian children: Do we have to review the standard?

SN Tsekrekos, I Buka - Paediatrics & child health, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Research indicates that the blood lead levels that were once considered safe can adversely
affect the neurodevelopment of children. The purpose of the present article is to review …

Misclassification of income quintiles derived from area-based measures: A comparison of enumeration area and forward sortation area

DA Southern, PD Galbraith, WA Ghali… - Canadian journal of …, 2002 - Springer
Background: Census-based methods are often used to estimate socioeconomic status. We
assessed the agreement between Forward Sortation Area (FSA) and Enumeration Area (EA) …