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Early exposure to lead and juvenile delinquency.
Cross-sectional studies have reported an association between lead (Pb) levels in bone and delinquent behavior in later childhood and adolescence. This is the first prospective longitudinal study of Pb and child development to address this question with comprehensive assessments of toxicant exposure and other developmental cofactors. A prospective longitudinal birth cohort of 195 urban, inner-ci...
متن کاملEnvironmental lead exposure during early childhood.
OBJECTIVE To determine the relative contribution of residential lead hazards to children's blood lead concentrations during early childhood. METHODS We enrolled children 6 months of age and followed them until 24 months of age. Blood and samples of dust, soil, water and paint were analyzed for lead at 6-month intervals, and interviews were conducted to estimate nutritional, behavioral, and de...
متن کاملLow-level lead exposure and behavior in early childhood.
OBJECTIVE To assess whether small elevations in blood lead level were associated with measurable behavioral changes in a group of poor children between 1 and 3 years old. METHODS The study population consisted of children presenting for routine well-child care to the pediatric clinic at Bellevue Hospital Center, a large urban public hospital. The following inclusion criteria were used for ent...
متن کاملEarly asymptomatic lead exposure and development at school age.
Sixty-seven 7-year-old children, who had asymptomatic lead exposure between 1 and 3 years of age, were compared in their performance on a series of psychologic tests to 70 children of the same age and socioeconomic background who presumably did not have significant exposure to lead. Exposed children had deficits in global IQ and associative abilities, in visual and fine motor coordination, and ...
متن کاملEpigenetics, obesity and early-life cadmium or lead exposure
Obesity is a complex and multifactorial disease, which likely comprises multiple subtypes. Emerging data have linked chemical exposures to obesity. As organismal response to environmental exposures includes altered gene expression, identifying the regulatory epigenetic changes involved would be key to understanding the path from exposure to phenotype and provide new tools for exposure detection...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Neurology Briefs
سال: 1996
ISSN: 2166-6482,1043-3155
DOI: 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-10-1-12