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Blood Lead Concentrations and Pregnancy Outcomes

Overview of attention for article published in Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal, September 2002
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Blood Lead Concentrations and Pregnancy Outcomes
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Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal, September 2002
DOI 10.1080/00039890209601442
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In this study, the authors related blood lead concentrations to Apgar scores, birth weight, gestational age, small-for-gestational age, and hypertension in pregnancy (HIP)/toxemia. Data and blood were collected 4 times during pregnancy from 705 women, aged 12-34 yr. Blood lead concentrations, measured by atomic absorption spectrophotometry, were related to reproductive outcomes, abstracted from medical records. Average blood lead concentrations were 1.2 microgram/dl (standard error = +/- 0.03). Maternal blood lead concentrations were related significantly to HIP/toxemia--before and after adjusting for age, calcium intake, and race/ethnicity (p < .03). Longitudinal regression analyses revealed that blood lead concentrations in women with HIP/toxemia changed by 0.02 microgram/dl for every 0.01 microgram/dl change in women without HIP/toxemia. Maternal blood lead concentration and its change were not significantly associated with other reproductive outcomes. Low levels of maternal blood lead concentrations were significantly associated with HIP/toxemia.

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Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 5%
Mexico 1 2%
Unknown 54 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 16%
Other 6 10%
Student > Master 6 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 5%
Other 11 19%
Unknown 19 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 34%
Environmental Science 4 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 2%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 21 36%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 November 2010.
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#10,258,277
of 29,597,885 outputs
Outputs from Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal
#1,131
of 2,035 outputs
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#21,714
of 57,876 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal
#1
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