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Lead toxicity with a new focus: Addressing low-level lead exposure in Canadian children

Canadian Paediatric SocietyPediatrics2019Official publication

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Official Canadian Paediatric Society document (2019) on “Lead toxicity with a new focus: Addressing low-level lead exposure in Canadian children”. Although acute and subacute lead toxicity requiring active treatment is rare in Canada, paediatricians need to be aware of new evidence linking lower lead levels to neurodevelopmental deficits. Health Canada has identified potential exposures occurring prenatally, in infancy and during early childhood from food and water, household dust, soil and mouthing products that contain lead. Children with neurodevelopmental p.

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