Change in Blood Lead Concentration up to 1 Year after a Gunshot Wound with a Retained Bullet
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Change in blood lead concentration up to 1 year after a gunshot wound with a retained bullet.
The authors studied the time course and prevalence of elevated blood lead concentrations and associated injury- and patient-specific factors during the first year following gunshot injury. They determined blood lead levels at mean time points of 0.3, 3.1, 18.7, 94.5, 188.3, and 349.4 days after injury in a volunteer sample of 451 subjects from a Los Angeles, California, trauma center who sustai...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0002-9262
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwh074