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It is a heavy metal, it presence in children it´s a public health issue, the paint is the principal source of exposure by the transfer hand to mouth; causes damages to health like mental retardation, encephalopathy, alterations to the neurologic development, reduced physical growth, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Materials and methods: Descriptive study, secondary analysis about the cases of the below 17 years minors with lead concentrations of the research “Mercury and lead prevalence in a sample of people living in Bogotá, 2012-2013”. Results: 93,7% had any concentration of lead in the blood, 37,5% had levels above the maximum value allowed. 6 cases with levels above the maximum value allowed, 4 of them are highlighted, 1 girl of 4 years old had the highest lead level, furthermore she had 1 exposition factor and 4 of the 6 clinical findings evaluated; other girl with 16 years old and 3 clinical findings and 2 boys of 8 and 15 years old that also had 3 clinical findings. Discussion: The sample size was really small. Even though the results don´t allowed to make some inferences, the fact that the 37,5% had concentrations above the maximum level allowed is worrying. In addition, the cases of children had specific clinical findings described in the literature related with high lead concentrations like deleyed motor development , deleyed speech development, diminished IQ and learning disabilities. These findings should be enough for the implementation of actions focused in the early identification of lead levels in minors.
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