Intellectual Impairment in Children with Blood Lead Concentrations below 10 μg per Deciliter

By R. Canfield, C. Henderson, D. Cory-Slechta, Christopher Cox, T. A. Jusko, B. Lanphear. 2003

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Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Nutrition and Dietetics, Pollution

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In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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2. S. Clemens
3. J. Ma
4. John M. Marzluff
5. Craig Chalquist
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Citations in the corpus

• Child development and the physical environment. (2006, background): “Lead levels below current “safe” thresholds produce IQ deficits in three- to five-year-olds (Canfield et al. 2003) as well as in elementary school–aged children (Bellinger & Needleman 2003, Chiodo et al. 2004).”
• Exposure of California Condors to Lead From Spent Ammunition (2007, background): “These considerations, of course, do not address the possibility of long-term sublethal impacts upon condors, as indicated, for example, by studies of intellectual impairment in children with average lead concentrations in blood ,10 lg/dL (Canfield et al. 2003).”
• Status of the California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) and Efforts to Achieve Its Recovery (2010, positive): “The sublethal consequences of this chronic, moderate to high blood lead level are unknown in condors and other birds but are recognized as a debilitating neurotoxic response in humans (Canfield et al. 2003, Kosnett 2009, Pokras and Kneeland 2009, Watson and Avery 2009).”
• Low-Level Environmental Lead Exposure and Children’s Intellectual Function: An International Pooled Analysis (2005, methodology): “Still, in studies that did examine other relevant covariates, such as breast-feeding and iron status, the estimated effect of lead was not altered appreciably ( Canfield et al. 2003; Needleman et al. 1990; Tong and Lu 2000).”
• Toxic Heavy Metal and Metalloid Accumulation in Crop Plants and Foods. (2016, background): “Public health concerns related to Pb have focused on neurotoxicity associated with negative effects on the intellectual abilities of children even at low exposure levels (12).”
• Universal Interventions: Fully Exploring Their Impacts and Potential to Produce Population-Level Impacts (2017, neutral): “…it has been convincingly demonstrated that the majority of IQ points lost from lead exposure occurs in children who have mild or moderate exposure, not very high levels of exposure; this is because there are so many more children who experience lower levels of exposure (Canfield et al., 2003).”