Abbritti G, Cicioni C, Gambelunghe M, Fiordi T, Accattoli M P, Morucci P, Bellucci E, Bauleo F A
Istituto di Medicina del Lavoro, Università di Perugia, Italy.
Biomed Environ Sci. 1988 Dec;1(4):363-71.
We carried out a survey on blood lead levels in children living in three different communities in Umbria, Italy: Corciano, a small community (12,500 inhabitants), free of lead-using factories and with light traffic; Perugia, a medium-sized city (146,500 inhabitants); Deruta, a small community (7500 inhabitants) whose economy is based mainly on the production of artistic pottery, mostly in small home-operated factories. The study sample was made up of 539 children (275 boys and 264 girls); 156 of them attended nursery school (aged 3-6) and 383 primary school (aged 6-11). The mean blood lead level was significantly higher in Deruta than in Corciano (9.7 vs 8.3 micrograms/dl); Deruta children whose parents were occupationally exposed to lead had significantly higher blood lead levels than children of lead-unexposed parents (10.7 vs 9.0 micrograms/dl). The mean blood lead level was higher in Perugia than in Corciano children. On the average boys had higher blood lead levels than girls in all of the groups. We conclude that blood lead levels were low in the groups of children studied. Nevertheless children of ceramic workers and children living in a medium-sized city had greater lead absorption than children living in the control area.
科尔恰诺，一个小社区（12,500名居民），没有使用铅的工厂且交通流量小；佩鲁贾，一个中等规模的城市（146,500名居民）；德鲁塔，一个小社区（7500名居民），其经济主要基于艺术陶器生产，大多是小型家庭作坊式工厂。研究样本由539名儿童组成（275名男孩和264名女孩）；其中156名儿童上幼儿园（3 - 6岁），383名儿童上小学（6 - 11岁）。德鲁塔儿童的平均血铅水平显著高于科尔恰诺（9.7微克/分升对8.3微克/分升）；父母职业性接触铅的德鲁塔儿童的血铅水平显著高于父母未接触铅的儿童（10.7微克/分升对9.0微克/分升）。佩鲁贾儿童的平均血铅水平高于科尔恰诺儿童。在所有组中，男孩的平均血铅水平都高于女孩。我们得出结论，在所研究的儿童群体中血铅水平较低。然而，陶瓷工人的孩子和生活在中等规模城市的儿童比生活在对照区域的儿童有更高的铅吸收。
