Lead pollution in urban and rural Saudi Arabian children

Ahmed, Motaheruddin; Ahmad, Parvez; Kutbi, I.

doi:10.1007/bf01701984

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“…Although the average hair lead content was slightly higher in the industrial area than in the agricultural area, the difference was not statistically significant. On the other hand, data for other countries e.g., the United States (Folio et al, 1982), New Zealand (Creason et al, 1983), Holland (Wibowo et al, 1986), Russia (Revich, 1994) and Saudi Arabia (Ahmed et al, 1989) showed that the hair lead content of residents in urban areas of massive lead contamination was higher than those of rural, uncontaminated areas.…”

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Lead Content in Human Scalp Hair of Rural and Urban Residents in Taiwan

Cheng

Saito

Kojima

1996

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

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Lead Content in Human Scalp Hair of Rural and Urban Residents in Taiwan

Cheng

Saito

Kojima

1996

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

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“…Accordingly, hair-Pb concentrations were measured in first-grade school boys, aged 6-8 years in 1984. Leaded gasoline and other lead-based industry have been identified as the chief sources of lead pollution in urban societies (Tsalev and Zaprianov,1983;Fergusson, 1986 (Ahmed et al,1989a;Ahmed et al,1989b;Ahmad et al,1988).…”

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Lead concentrations in the hair of some Saudi Arabian children : A follow‐up study

Ahmed

Abulfaraj

Kutbi

et al. 1990

Journal of Environmental Science and Health . Part A: Environme

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Hair-Pb concentrations in 200 school boys from the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, aged 6-8 years in 1984, were first measured five years ago in 1984, as part of a program to evaluate the environmental impact of the gigantic developmental activities started a decade ago and now reaching their peaks in this Kingdom. After a period of five years, 93 of the same boys could be traced and were followed up in 1989 to see the effect of the intervening period. An interesting result emerged : the mean hair-Pb concentration actually decreased from the 1984-value of 8.88 ppm ( n = 93 ) to 7.30 ppm in 1989. This decrease can be attributed to a concurrent reduction in the lead content of gasoline used in Jeddah from 0.84 g per litre in 1984 to 0.60 g per litre in 1989 , indicating a possible correlation between the hair-Pb and the gasoline-Pb levels.

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The biochemical and clinical consequences of lead poisoning

Al‐Saleh

1994

Medicinal Research Reviews

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Lead pollution in urban and rural Saudi Arabian children

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Lead Content in Human Scalp Hair of Rural and Urban Residents in Taiwan

Lead Content in Human Scalp Hair of Rural and Urban Residents in Taiwan

Lead concentrations in the hair of some Saudi Arabian children : A follow‐up study

The biochemical and clinical consequences of lead poisoning

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