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SUBMITTER: Pantic I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6210390 | biostudies-other | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Pantic Ivan I Tamayo-Ortiz Marcela M Rosa-Parra Antonio A Bautista-Arredondo Luis L Wright Robert O RO Peterson Karen E KE Schnaas Lourdes L Rothenberg Stephen J SJ Hu Howard H Téllez-Rojo Martha María MM
International journal of environmental research and public health 20180930 10
Despite the removal of lead from gasoline in 1997, elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) > 5 µg/dL are still detectable in children living in Mexico City. The use of lead-glazed ceramics may explain these persistent exposure levels. Mexico lacks a national surveillance program for BLL, but temporal trends can be derived from epidemiological studies. With this approach, we leveraged a series of birth cohorts to report BLL trends from 1987 to 2002 and expanded our analysis to 2015. Data were from 1⁻5- ...[more]