The Great Lakes Center for Children's Environmental Health

Lead Exposure in Ukrainian children

One aspect of GLC's research efforts in Ukraine is assessing the large volume of data that has resulted from our US-Ukraine collaborative research study - the Family and Children of Ukraine (see Case Study). A recent article in press discusses how analysis of the data resulted in understanding elevated blood lead levels in these children. Citation: LS Friedman, OM Lukyanova, YI Kundiev, ZA Shkiryak-Nizhnyk, NV Chislovska, A Mucha, AV Zvinchuk, I Oliynyk, and D Hryhorczuk. Predictors of elevated blood lead levels among 3-year-old Ukrainian children: a nested case-control study. Environmental Research, article in press, 2005.