Cumulative effect of lead on cognition: Is bone more revealing than blood?

Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1536-1537

  Weisskopf, Marc G ^a   Myers, Gary ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BONE AND BONES; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LEAD; LEAD POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM, ADULT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; TIME;

EID: 33751013001     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000246111.21148.ee     Document Type: Editorial

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