Prevalence and Incidence of Lead poisoning
Lead poisoning Prevalence: Book Excerpts
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Poisonous snakebites:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Of the approximately 45,000 snakebites that occur in the United States each year, 7,000 to 8,000 are from poisonous snakes, resulting in 5 to 6 deaths. Such bites are most common during summer afternoons in grassy or rocky habitats.
Pit vipers are nocturnal but active snakes that are responsible for 99% of venomous snake bites in the United States. Coral snakes are also nocturnal, but their placidity makes coral snake bites less common than pit viper bites. Coral snakes tend to bite with a chewing motion, and may leave multiple fang marks, small lacerations, and extensive tissue destruction.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Lead Poisoning:
Lead Poisoning - epidemiology
(The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult)
- ~83% of American pre-1978 privately owned units contain some lead-based paint.
- A recent national survey estimates that 38 million and 24 million housing units have lead-based paint and significant lead-based paint hazards, respectively.
Lead Poisoning - prevalence
- Prevalence of elevated lead levels and geometric mean BLLs have decreased significantly in the past 20 years.
- ~310,000 American children ages 1–5 years (1.6% of a representative national sample) are estimated to have BLLs of ≥10 mcg/dL
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Source: The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, 2008
About prevalence and incidence statistics:
The term 'prevalence' of Lead poisoning usually refers to the estimated population
of people who are managing Lead poisoning at any given time.
The term 'incidence' of Lead poisoning refers to the annual diagnosis rate,
or the number of new cases of Lead poisoning diagnosed each year.
Hence, these two statistics types can differ:
a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence,
but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence.
For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.
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