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- Title:
- Distúrbios neurológicos em trabalhadores com baixos níveis de chumbo no sangue. II-Disfunc̈ões neurocomportamentais
- Neurological disturbances in workers with low levels of lead in the blood. II-Neuropsychological disorders
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
- Esc. Nac. de Saúde Pub.
- Faculdade Cie. Farmaceuticas A.
- Trabalhador S. Bernardo do Campo
- 0034-8910
- This is a cross-sectional study with a randomized choice of individuals aiming at studying the validity of the Brazilian biological exposure limits applied to lead level in the blood (PbB) and delta-aminolevulinic acid in the urine (ALAU), which are 60 μ/dl and 10 mg/g.creat., respectively. Thus, twenty workers, whose PbB and ALAU values have been below these limits over the past two years, were selected at random at a battery plant in the State of S. Paulo, Brazil. The workers were submitted to a variation of the WHO Neurobehavioral Core Test Battery. The results were compared with those obtained for workers of a control group also chosen at random. The lead workers showed memory, mood and motor coordination disorders. Comparing these results with those obtained from the control group, a significant difference was observed (p-value < 0.02). The results indicate that the Brazilian biological exposure limits above should be reconsidered.
- 1-Aug-1996
- Revista de Saude Publica, v. 30, n. 4, p. 358-363, 1996.
- 358-363
- Higher nervous activity
- Lead poisoning, prevention and control
- Neurologic manifestations
- Occupational exposure, standards
- lead
- blood
- cross-sectional study
- human
- mental disease
- neurologic disease
- occupational exposure
- Cross-Sectional Studies
- Humans
- Lead
- Mental Disorders
- Nervous System Diseases
- Occupational Exposure
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-89101996000400009
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- http://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/64821
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