Screening for Childhood @entity10108 in the Industrial Region of XXXX , Morocco.

@entity1 @entity8 @entity10108 @entity417 @entity16 @entity15164 @entity68 @entity1760
UNASSIGNED: The study objectives were to estimate @entity10108 prevalence among @entity1 living next to an industrial area, to compare it to that in a control population, and to establish clinical and biological follow-up of the poisoned @entity1 . This is a descriptive cross-sectional study including 150 @entity1 (exposed and unexposed) performed between January 2012 and April 2013. It was meant to determine blood lead levels (BLLs) in @entity1 considered to be an exposed population (EP N 90), living in the industrial area Ain Nokb @entity15164 compared with BLLs of @entity1 of other areas belonging to the same city supposed to be unexposed [UP (N  =  60)]. A sociodemographic questionnaire was obtained, and a blood lead analysis was performed. Clinical and biological follow-up has been performed of poisoned @entity1 . The sample consisted of 90 EP @entity1 with an average age of 6.82      3.32  years and male-to-female sex ratio (SR) of 1.5 and 60 UP @entity1 with an average age of 6.45      3.29  years and an SR of 1.2. Among the 150 @entity1 recruited, the average of BLLs was 58.21      36    g/L (18-202.3   g/L). The average of BLLs in EP @entity1 (71      40    g/L) was statistically greater (p  <  0.0001) than that registered in UP @entity1 (38      13    g/L). All poisoned @entity1 belonged to the EP group at a prevalence of 21.1  %. The clinical and biological examinations of poisoned @entity1 showed a few perturbations such as @entity417 , hypocalcaemia, and deficiencies in @entity1760 and @entity68 . No @entity8 or objective @entity16 were observed. In the follow-up of the @entity1 with BLL >= 100    g/L (19 cases). BLL monitoring showed a significant decrease in average of blood concentration ranging from 136.75      32.59 to 104.58      32.73    g/L (p  <  0.0001) and in @entity10108 prevalence (p  <  0.001), which decreased to 7.8  % from 21.1. Our study showed a high prevalence of @entity10108 (21.1  %) in EP @entity1 . The relocation of the industrial site associated with corrective and preventive measures has contributed to a decrease of exposure and @entity10108 prevalence in the aforementioned population.
