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Article: Less lead in blood, breast milk attributed to education, prevention program.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- November 22, 2004
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2004 NOV 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Neurologists credit an education and prevention program with reducing the levels of lead in blood in children and breast milk of women in high-risk areas of Ecuador.
"Prenatal and postnatal lead (Pb) exposure may induce neurodevelopmental disabilities in children. As part of an ongoing health-monitoring study, blood lead (PbB) levels were compared in 90 children tested in 2003 (current group) and 166 children tested between 1996 and 2000 (reference group) in Ecuadorian Andean villages with high Pb contamination," wrote S.A. Counter and colleagues.
"The mean PbB level for children in the reference group was 40 ...