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Blood Lead Levels in Children Living near Lead Smelting Zone: A Pilot Field Study
| العنوان: | Blood Lead Levels in Children Living near Lead Smelting Zone: A Pilot Field Study |
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| المؤلفون: | Kakali Roy, Surupa Basu, Nabendu Murmu, Jyotirmoy Adhikari, Sumantra Adhikari, Ritabrata Kundu, Apurba Ghosh |
| المصدر: | Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, Vol 16, Iss 8, Pp SC20-SC23 (2022) |
| بيانات النشر: | JCDR Research and Publications Private Limited, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | anaemia, calcium, children, kolkata, lead toxicity, vitamin d, Medicine |
| الوصف: | Introduction: Children are most susceptible to Lead (Pb) toxicity. Exposure to lead in the environment still exists in various pockets of urban cities due to continued practices of using lead in jewellery making, paints, battery smelting and in cosmetics. Aim: To evaluate Blood Lead Level (BLL) and its association with haemoglobin, Red Blood Corpuscle (RBC) indices and bone parameters (vitamin D, parathyroid hormone, calcium, phosphorus, and Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP) in children residing near lead battery smelting units of Kolkata. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional field-based pilot study carried out by Institute of Child Health, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. A camp was organised in the month of August 2015, at a known major cluster of secondary lead smelting area ward no. 66 in the Kolkata metropolitan district. A total of 45 camp attending children were enrolled. BLL was measured using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry, and association with haematological and bone parameters were evaluated. Results: Mean age of the participants was 5.6±3.3 years, and mean BLL was 3.7±1.9 μg/dL (range:1.3-8.2). About 35 children were found to have low BLL |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2249-782X 0973-709X |
| Relation: | https://www.jcdr.net/articles/PDF/16789/53738_CE(AD)_F(KR)_PF1(RD_KM)_PFA_PB(RD_KM)_PN(KM).pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/2249-782X; https://doaj.org/toc/0973-709X |
| DOI: | 10.7860/JCDR/2022/53738.16789 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/64ebc3db3beb4ae782ee8e6394366476 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.64ebc3db3beb4ae782ee8e6394366476 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 2249782X 0973709X |
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| DOI: | 10.7860/JCDR/2022/53738.16789 |