Global health burden and cost of lead exposure in children and adults: a health impact and economic modelling analysis
Summary: Background: Lead exposure is a worldwide health risk despite substantial declines in blood lead levels following the leaded gasoline phase-out. For the first time, to our knowledge, we aimed to estimate the global burden and cost of intelligence quotient (IQ) loss and cardiovascular diseas...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2023-10-01
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Series: | The Lancet Planetary Health |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519623001663 |