Screening for lead exposure in children in Belize Tamizaje de la exposición al plomo en niños de Belice

• Main Authors: Andreas Charalambous, Katie Demoliou, Marco Mendez, Robert Coye, Giovanni Solorzano, Elena Papanastasiou
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2009
• Subjects: Plomo; tamizaje masivo; Belice; Lead; mass screening; Belize; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Dedo
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/14aaec9e94844738a158b85787d68943

OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this pilot study were to determine the blood lead levels in children in Belize and to try to relate these findings to demographic variables. METHODS: With permission from parents, capillary blood was collected from the fingers of 164 children with an age range of 2 to 8...