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Lead (Pb), intellectual functioning and health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Carrie Garavan  and
Frank Houghton
Carrie Garavan
Affiliation:
Environment and Health, Environmental Research Centre, UL
Frank Houghton
Affiliation:
Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick
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Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , September 2009 , pp. 152 - 154
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