Lead Poisoning in United States-Bound Refugee Children: Thailand-Burma Border, 2009
| Autor: | Luis Ortega, Emily S. Jentes, Tarissa Mitchell, Taran Jefferies, Predrag Bajcevic, Marissa Scalia Sucosky, Mary Jean Brown, Warren Jones, Valentina Parr, John A. Painter |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Refugee Emigrants and Immigrants Nutritional Status Myanmar Lead poisoning Elevated blood Humans Medicine Child Refugees Anemia Iron-Deficiency medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Infant Thailand medicine.disease Disease control United States Confidence interval Lead Poisoning Cross-Sectional Studies Lead ELEVATED BLOOD LEAD LEVEL Case-Control Studies Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Blood lead level Hemoglobin business |
| Zdroj: | Pediatrics. 129:e392-e399 |
| ISSN: | 1098-4275 0031-4005 |
| DOI: | 10.1542/peds.2011-1218 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: Elevated blood lead levels lead to permanent neurocognitive sequelae in children. Resettled refugee children in the United States are considered at high risk for elevated blood lead levels, but the prevalence of and risk factors for elevated blood lead levels before resettlement have not been described. METHODS: Blood samples from children aged 6 months to 14 years from refugee camps in Thailand were tested for lead and hemoglobin. Sixty-seven children with elevated blood lead levels (venous ≥10 µg/dL) or undetectable (capillary RESULTS: Of 642 children, 33 (5.1%) had elevated blood lead levels. Children aged CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of elevated blood lead levels among tested US-bound Burmese refugee children was higher than the current US prevalence, and was especially high among children |
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