Tracing out correlation between blood lead and haematological parameters in villagers around a lead mine area

Lead concentration in different people of different age groups and sexes were analyzed by AAS around five different villages in a derelict Lead mine area in Sundargarh district of Odisha state. Different blood parameters studied included total RBC and total WBC counts, gm % of haemoglobin, haematocrit, mean. Differential counts of WBCs were also done for the respective groups. A correlation coefficient („r‟) between lead content of blood and Mean values of these parameters was worked out. The r – values are found to be highly significant.