Blood pressure and lead levels in children.
Blood lead and hypertension are associated in adults. We attempted to duplicate this finding in a presumably more susceptible group of children. Small but statistically significant negative corelations were found between blood pressure and lead levels in these children. This indicated to us that the proposed positive relationship did not exist, and that the failure to detect such a relationship was not due to small sample size.
D001741:Black or African American; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007855:Lead Poisoning / Q000097:blood / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D009657:North Carolina