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ArticleEnvironmental geochemistry and health2020

Influence of task-based airborne lead exposures on blood lead levels: a case study of informal automobile repair artisans in Nakuru town, Kenya.

Owino Alfred Odongo, W N Moturi, Meshack Amos Obonyo

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Article in Environmental geochemistry and health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Owino Alfred OdongoCollege of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Mount Kenya University, Thika, Kenya. alfredodongo.owino@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4138-2434
W N MoturiDepartment of Environmental Science, Egerton University, Box 536, Njoro, Kenya.
Meshack Amos ObonyoDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Egerton University, Box 536, Njoro, Kenya.

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Kenya National Research Fund NRF Ist/2016-2017/Eger 07
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Abstract

Lead poisoning is an emerging worldwide public health concern, especially in the developing countries. Occupational tasks such as spray painting and welding in informal automobile repair enterprises present risks of exposures to lead generally through inhalation and ingestion. The artisans therefore risk high blood lead (BPb) levels, which is critical to chronic adverse health effects of lead. The study aimed at assessing the influence of occupational tasks on personal airborne lead exposures and to evaluate the association between these exposures with blood lead (BPb) levels among the artisans. A cross-sectional study was conducted in ten informal automobile repair workshops. Task-specific personal inhalable air samples and blood samples were collected concurrently for 20 participants performing five distinct occupational tasks. Lead levels were analysed using inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy and data analysed by analysis of variance, simple and multiple linear regressions. The results indicated significant differences in airborne lead (PbA) exposure levels in different occupational tasks (p = 0.000). Lead-acid battery repairs recorded mean PbA exposure level of [76.11 ± (10.81 SE) µg/m

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AdultAir Pollutants, OccupationalAutomobilesCross-Sectional StudiesHumansKenyaLeadLead PoisoningMaleOccupational ExposureSpectrophotometry, AtomicWorkplaceAir Pollutants, OccupationalLeadBlood lead levelsInformal automobile repairsLead poisoningOccupational tasksTask-based airborne lead

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