Blood Lead Levels and Potential Risk Factors for Lead Exposures Among South Asians in New York City.
| Autor: | Hore, Paromita, Ahmed, Munerah, Sedlar, Slavenka, Saper, Robert, Nagin, Deborah, Clark, Nancy |
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LEAD poisoning -- Risk factors
RISK factors of environmental exposure ANALYSIS of variance ASIANS CONFIDENCE intervals LEAD PROBABILITY theory RACE RESEARCH funding RISK assessment SURVEYS T-test (Statistics) HOUSEKEEPING OCCUPATIONAL hazards ENVIRONMENTAL exposure MULTIPLE regression analysis COMMUNICATION barriers CROSS-sectional method DATA analysis software DESCRIPTIVE statistics ODDS ratio |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health; Dec2017, Vol. 19 Issue 6, p1322-1329, 8p |
| Abstrakt: | New York City's South Asian children and pregnant women have a disproportionate burden of elevated blood lead levels. This study is the first to investigate blood lead levels and risk factors for lead exposures among South Asian New Yorkers. A survey and a finger-stick blood lead test using a portable analyzer were administered to 230 South Asian adults and children. Blood lead levels of 5 µg/dL or higher were found in 20 % of the adults and 15 % of the children, as compared to 5 % of adults and 2.5 % of children citywide. Factors associated with elevated blood lead levels were recent repair work at home, not speaking English, Bangladeshi or Indian ethnicity, and occupational risk factors. Public health professional should be aware that South Asians may be at an increased risk for elevated blood lead levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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