Moderate lead exposure and elementary school end-of-grade examination performance

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 700-707

  Magzamen, Sheryl ^a,b   Imm, Pamela ^a,c   Amato, Michael S ^d   Havlena, Jeffrey A ^a   Anderson, Henry A ^c   Moore, Colleen F ^d,e   Kanarek, Marty S ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c WISCONSIN DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood; Education; Health status disparities; Lead poisoning; Neurologic; Socioeconomic status; Urban population

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOLOGY; SPECIAL EDUCATION; URBAN POPULATION;

CHILDHOOD; EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; LEAD POISONING; NEUROLOGIC; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN POPULATION;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84885956916     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: 18732585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2013.08.007     Document Type: Article

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