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Less lead in blood, breast milk attributed to education, prevention program.
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 mcg/dL (range, 6.2-119.1), and significantly higher than the mean PbB level of 25.5 mcg/dL (range, 2.1-94.3) for the current group) (t test, p=0.0001)," the researchers said.
"An analysis of variance revealed no significant main effects for age and gender and no significant interaction between age and gender for the current group, but a significant age by gender interaction for the reference group (F=5.96, p=0.01). Regression analysis revealed a significant correlation (r=0.258, p=0.01) between PbB level and age for males but not for females in the reference group," Counter's group reported.
They tested nursing mothers' breast milk and found Pb levels "ranged from 0.4-20.5 mug/L (mean, ...
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