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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 6.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2011 Nov;15(8):1195–1202. doi: 10.1007/s10995-010-0692-6

Table 1.

Proportion of children lead poisoned

Lead poisoned (blood lead level ≥10 μg/dL)
No
169,330 (82.70%)
Yes
35,416 (17.30%)
Sex
 Female (n = 100,395) 84,132 (83.8%) 16,263 (16.2%)
 Male (n = 104,351) 85,198 (81.6%) 19,153 (18.4%)
Test method
 Capillary (n = 86,849) 66,272 (76.3%) 20,577 (23.7%)
 Venous (n = 117,897) 103,058 (87.4%) 14,839 (12.6%)
Age at test
 0–12 months (n = 46,787) 42,770 (91.4%) 4,017 (8.6%)
 >12–24 months (n = 56,843) 47,224 (83.1%) 9,619 (16.9%)
 >24–36 months (n = 33,932) 26,244 (77.3%) 7,688 (22.7%)
 >36–48 months (n = 26,290) 20,399 (77.6%) 5,891 (22.4%)
 >48–60 months (n = 24,201) 19, 274 (79.6%) 4,927 (20.4%)
 >60–72 months (n = 16,693) 13,419 (80.4%) 3,274 (19.6%)