Pattern of Blood Lead Levels over Working Lifetime and Neuropsychological Performance

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 373-379

  Lindgren, Karen N ^a   Ford, D Patrick ^a   Bleecker, Margit L ^a  

^a Center for Occupational and Environmental Neurology   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood lead pattern; Occupational exposure; Smelter workers; Time integrated blood lead; Verbal memory

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; LIFESPAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; METALLURGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELTER; VERBAL MEMORY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAD; LEAD POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM, ADULT; MALE; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 1242293681     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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