Adverse health effects of lead at low exposure levels: trends in the management of childhood lead poisoning.
An extensive database has provided a direct link between low-level lead exposure during early development and deficits in neurobehavioral-cognitive performance evident late in childhood through adolescence. These consistent studies have demonstrated the presence of a constellation of neurotoxic and other adverse effects of lead at blood lead (BPb) levels at least as low as 10 micrograms/dl). Federal agencies and advisory groups have redefined childhood lead poisoning as a BPb level of 10 micrograms/dl. Before discussing some of these studies in greater detail, the pervasiveness of this entirely preventable disease today in millions of American children must be recognized.
Rosen
J F
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Division of Environmental Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York 10467, USA.
D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000139:chemically induced; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000139:chemically induced; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D006801:Humans; D007854:Lead / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000097:blood; D007855:Lead Poisoning / Q000628:therapy*
D007854:Lead