Risk population groups, epidemiologic studies

Iodine Nutrition in Bulgaria Results from the National Strategy for Elimination of Iodine Deficiency Disorders in Bulgaria -Epidemiologic Studies on Risk Population Groups... 

Cardiovascular effects of Pb in humans are the subject of Chapter 13, particularly with respect to effect potency in older exposure subjects but with inclusion of other risk groups. Cardiovascular effects, while inconsistently quantified across human populations, have been identified in multiple epidemiological studies, supported by a number of experimental data sets appearing in the global literature. Chapter 14 on human reproductive and developmental impacts of lead exposures presents the more useful data across several risk groups within human populations. Chapter 15 discusses adverse effects of lead on the renal system as nephrotoxicity is considered to occur across both occupational and nonoccupational subsets of human populations and subsets within nonoccupational categories. Discussions in Chapter 15, much like those in Chapter 18 on immunotoxicity, have benefited from quite recent findings. 

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