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Public Health

Volume 136, July 2016, Pages 188-191
Public Health

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Characteristics of childhood lead poisoning among Tennessee children ages one to five years, 2009–2013

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Highlights

  • Risk factors for blood lead levels ≥10 μg/dL have been defined as gender, child age, poverty, old housing, and race/ethnicity.

  • No risk factors have yet been associated with the CDC's new reference level for childhood lead poisoning of 5 μg/dL.

  • BLLs in Tennessee children are higher than the national average.

  • Being Black, male, and two and three years old were identified as risk factors for the new reference level in this analysis.

  • Pre-1950 housing and poverty persist as risk factors for the new reference level according to multivariable analysis.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Tennessee Department of Health for providing the BLL data for this study.

Ethical approval

This study was approved by the Walden University Institutional Review Board (no. 08-29-13-0171767) and the Tennessee Department of Health Institutional Review Board (no. 513975-1).

Funding

None

Competing interests

None declared.

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