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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 26.
Published in final edited form as: J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2013;76(19):1111–1120. doi: 10.1080/15287394.2013.840708

Table 2.

Percentage of Ecuadorian Andean adults with blood lead (PbB) levels ≥ 25 μg/dL* for the years 1996, 1997, 1998, 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2012.

Year 1996 1997 1998 2003 2006 2007 2012
Percentage 63.4 20.0 9.4 28.6 47.8 70.0 41.0
*

A PbB level of ≥ 25 μg/dL is defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as elevated in adults.22