Environmental lead measurements and blood lead levels of young children living in a community adjacent to a stationary lead source were compared to those living in a community without a stationary lead source.
Based upon the limited data to date, abatement of soil lead is more effective than abatement of lead-based paint in reducing blood lead levels of young children.
To develop a spatial strategy to assess neighborhood risk for lead exposure and neighborhood-level blood lead testing of young children living in the city of Atlanta, Georgia.
These data describe the degree of variability that may be associated with bone lead measurements of young subjects with low bone lead concentrations using a standard spot-source KXRF instrument.
Continued public health initiatives to remove lead from the environment, in conjunction with routine lead screening of young children, will be key in meeting the goal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to eliminate childhood lead poisoning by the year 2011.
"Lead in tap water ― consumed in the home, offices, other worksites, and public buildings ― can be a particularly important source of lead exposure of young children, pregnant women, and other people," stated an authoritative book on infant lead exposure published in 1993 by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
The fact that not a single one of the 142 children had an undetectable blood lead concentration at either of the two blood collections documents the current relatively high level of environmental lead exposure of young Newark children.
It seems equally possible that invading Iraq will trigger precisely the scenario we fear -- Saddam handing out anthrax or even smallpox to terrorists -- and that our invasion will lead thousands of young Arabs to join Al Qaeda.
In a survey of households in the United Kingdom, the total estimated lead intake of young children was 36 μg/day, of which 1 μg/day was by inhalation and the rest by ingestion [ 12].
An excellent example of a collaborative effort to address regional environmental exposures is that of the public health communities in Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority to assess and limit lead exposure of young children.
