title: Adult blood lead epidemiology and surveillance -- United States, second quarter, 1997.
abstract: CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance (ABLES) program monitors laboratory-reported elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) among adults in the United States. During 1997, a total of 27 states reported surveillance data to ABLES. In this report, ABLES data for the first and second quarters of 1997 are presented and compared with the first and second quarters of 1996.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007854:Lead / Q000097:blood*; D007855:Lead Poisoning / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011159:Population Surveillance; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D007854:Lead