Cumulative lead exposure in community-dwelling adults and fine motor function: Comparing standard and novel tasks in the VA Normative Aging Study

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 154-161

  Grashow, Rachel ^a   Spiro, Avron ^b   Taylor, Kathryn M ^a   Newton, Kimberly ^a   Shrairman, Ruth ^c   Landau, Alexander ^c   Sparrow, David ^b   Hu, Howard ^d   Weisskopf, Marc ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VeriFax Corporation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fine motor; Grooved pegboard; Lead; NAS; Visuomotor

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BONE LEVEL; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; K SHELL X RAY FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PATELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIBIA; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; LEAD; LEAD POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM, ADULT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATELLA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; TIBIA;

EID: 84874443934     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: 18729711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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