ENVIRONMENTAL LEAD EXPOSURE : ARE WE AT RISK?

Environmental lead exposure as a risk for childhood aplastic anemia.

Concern about environmental lead exposure as a significant public health threat has increased as evidence has accumulated regarding adverse health effects at successively lower levels. Aplastic anemia is a hematological disorder of unknown etiology with a high lethality rate. Lead is a known toxicant for the hematopoietic system. Oxidative stress appears to be the possible mode of lead toxicity...

Lead poisoning. Are your children at risk?

Metabolic syndrome: are we at risk?

The metabolic syndrome also called syndrome X, is a constellation of interrelated risk factors of metabolic origin--metabolic risk factors--that appear to share insulin resistance as a possible pathogenetic factor that directly promote the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases and increase the risk for developing type 2 diabetes mellitus. The recommended first step for treatmen...

Environmental Lead Exposure among Preschool Children in Shanghai, China: Blood Lead Levels and Risk Factors

OBJECTIVE To determine blood lead levels and to identify related risk factors among children in Shanghai; to explore the lead change trend of children after industrial transformation and to provide data for policy development to control environmental lead pollution in Shanghai. METHODS A stratified-clustered-random sampling method was used. A tungsten atomizer absorption spectrophotometer was...

Radiation exposure in CT scanning and risk: where are we?