Lead exposure and visual-motor abilities in children from Chennai, India

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 465-470

  Palaniappan, Kavitha ^a   Roy, Ananya ^b   Balakrishnan, Kalpana ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Lakshmi ^a   Mukherjee, Bhramar ^c   Hu, Howard ^c,d,e   Bellinger, David C ^e,f  

^a SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Lead levels; Visual motor abilities

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; LEAD;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FATHER; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; INDIA; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOTHER; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MOTOR COMPOSITE SCORE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WIDE RANGE OF VISUAL MOTOR ABILITIES TEST;

AGE FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LEAD; LEAD POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM, CHILDHOOD; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79955758549     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: 18729711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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