Longitudinal associations between blood lead concentrations lower than 10 μg/dL and neurobehavioral development in environmentally exposed children in Mexico City

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Téllez Rojo, Martha M ^a,f   Bellinger, David C ^b,d   Arroyo Quiroz, Carmen ^a   Lamadrid Figueroa, Héctor ^a   Mercado García, Adriana ^a   Schnaas Arrieta, Lourdes ^e   Wright, Robert O ^c   Hernández Avila, Mauricio ^a   Hu, Howard ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PERINATOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^f NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Children; Lead; Neurobehavioral

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; LEAD;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FURNACE; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; INFANT; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MEXICO; NEUROTOXICITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FETUS BLOOD; LEAD POISONING; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEWBORN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEAD; LEAD POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM, CHILDHOOD; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MEXICO; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33748430530     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-3123     Document Type: Article

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