ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2017
A Pilot Study of Children's Blood Lead Levels in Mount Isa, Queensland.
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- Systematic Review of the Health and Equity Impacts of Remediation and Redevelopment of Contaminated Sites.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- The Mechanisms of Lead Toxicity in Living Organisms.Journal of xenobiotics · 2025Review
- The Blood Lead Levels of Children and the Loss of CaInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Trace Element Analysis in Whole Blood and Plasma for Reference Levels in a Selected Queensland Population, Australia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Trace elements in rice grain and agricultural soils: assessment of health risk of inhabitants near a former secondary lead smelter in Khulna, Bangladesh.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2019Article
- Public Health Risks Associated with Heavy Metal and Microbial Contamination of Drinking Water in Australia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Potential ecological risk of metal pollution in lead smelter-contaminated agricultural soils in Khulna, Bangladesh.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2019Article
- Lead Toxicity: an Australian Perspective.The Clinical biochemist. Reviews · 2018Review
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Abstract
Mount Isa, Queensland, is one of three Australian cities with significant lead emissions due to nonferrous mining and smelting. Unlike the two other cities with lead mines or smelters, Mount Isa currently has no system of annual, systematic, community-wide blood lead level testing; and testing rates among Indigenous children are low. In previous screenings, this group of children has been shown to have higher average blood lead levels than non-Indigenous children. The first aim of this study was to assess whether parents and children would participate in less invasive, rapid point-of-care capillary testing. The second aim was to measure blood lead levels among a range of children that roughly reflected the percentage of the Indigenous/non-Indigenous population. This pilot study is based on a convenience sample of children between the ages of 12 and 83 months who were recruited to participate by staff at a Children and Family Centre. Over three half-days, 30 children were tested using capillary blood samples and the LeadCare II Point-of-Care testing system. Rapid point-of-care capillary testing was well tolerated by the children. Of 30 children tested, 40% (
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