[Experience in the study of the effects of lead on the health status of children in Belovo]. / Opyt izucheniia vozdeistviia svintsa na sostoianie zdorov'ia detei g. Belovo.
Med Tr Prom Ekol
; (12): 25-32, 1998.
Article
en Ru
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-9916451
Lead releases in Belovo town containing metallurgy enterprise had reached 120 tons/year earlier, but in recent years have decreased to 9 tons/year. Reduction of the production induced decrease of lead levels in the ambient air from 0.7-2.3 mg/m3 in 1994 to 0.001-0.24 mg/m3. Lead concentration in the soil ranges from 30 to 3000 mg/kg. Lead levels were measured in serum of 91 children, in hair of 67 ones and in teeth of 15 children. Serum lead levels in children aged 7-8 years varied from 0.5 to 39 mg/dl, with an average of 9.9 mg/dl (SD is 5.2 mg/dl), geometric mean is 8.5 mg/dl and error of geometric mean is 3.3. 46% of the children had serum lead levels exceeding the normal one (10 mg/dl). Average lead level in the hair equaled 4.5 mg/g (SD is 4.9 mg/g). The children living in towns with higher environmental lead levels demonstrated more frequent anxiety and changes in higher psychic functions. The major points influencing the serum lead level are proximity to highway, dietary load of goods grown near the residence, mother's smoking. Biokinetic model describing lead transfer into the blood helped to evaluate various modes of the enterprise functioning and efficiency of some environmental protection measures. The most efficient are measures aimed to lower dietary intake of lead, less efficiency is associated with measures reducing lead levels in air, dust and soil.
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Contaminantes Ambientales
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Plomo
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Intoxicación por Plomo
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Patient_preference
Límite:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
Ru
Revista:
Med Tr Prom Ekol
Asunto de la revista:
MEDICINA OCUPACIONAL
Año:
1998
Tipo del documento:
Article
Pais de publicación:
Rusia