Lead Lingers Case Study

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Hello Dr. Julian,
Thank you for reading my discussion post case study # 2, and perspective question. Lead poisonousness is a global problem, while arrays of research information indicated a deterioration in the predominance of upsurge blood lead echelons in children from the developed world, lead lingers as a widespread avoidable ecological health hazard. The CBC analysis has an enormous effect on lead poisoning, the CBC laboratory appraisal answers arrays of question-related to quantity of RBCs, hemoglobin, reticulocytes, mean corpuscular volume, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, hematocrit, and mean corpuscular hemoglobin in the blood (Burns, Dunn, Brady, Starr, Blosser, & Garzon, 2017; Camitta & Slye, 2012).

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