AAP News Vol. 10 No. 10 October 1994, p. 3
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Lead-poisoning prevalence

LAURIE LARSON

Urban children of high socioeconomic status might be as likely as poor children to be exposed to unsafe lead levels, according to a study in the August Clinical Pediatrics.

Some 165 infants of high socioeconomic status, between ages 6 months and one year, were tested for unsafe blood lead levels. Sixty-seven percent of children lived in a large city, had parents who were college graduates (67 percent) and had private medical insurance (85 percent). The overall prevalence of lead poisoning was 29 percent.