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SUBMITTER: Zhang YF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6407931 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Yong-Fang YF Xu Jiang-Wei JW Yang Yao Y Huang Xueqin X Yu Xin-Qiao XQ
Medicine 20190201 8
China has serious lead pollution and a high incidence of childhood rickets. High lead levels have been reported in childhood rickets, but the results were inconsistent.To evaluate the association between body lead levels and childhood rickets.After a systematic literature search, we identified 15 studies determining body lead levels between rickets children and healthy controls, and 4 studies focusing on the cases of different disease severity. Standard mean differences (SMD) and the correspondi ...[more]