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Research results from Michigan State University update understanding of public health

Published in Nursing Home and Elder Business Week, March 28th, 2010

"We determined which children should be tested for elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) in the face of financial and practical barriers to universal screening efforts and within 2009 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations allowing health departments to develop BLL screening strategies. We used the Michigan database of BLL tests from 1998 through 2005, which contains address, Medicaid eligibility, and race data," investigators in the United States report.

"Linking addresses to U.S. Census 2000 data by block group provided neighborhood sociodemographic and housing characteristics. To derive an equation predicting BLL, we treated BLL as a continuous...

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Source: Nursing Home and Elder Business Week (2010-03-28)

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