Sentence examples for relation of lead from inspiring English sources

Although causality cannot be determined from cross-sectional data, it is interesting to consider the possibility that this relation of lead and homocysteine could explain one of the mechanisms of the influence of lead on the central nervous and cardiovascular systems.

In addition, because the HFE variant alleles are not known to affect the relation of lead levels in tibia to lead levels in the brain, one would anticipate similar magnitudes of change in MMSE scores per unit increase in body lead burden among wild-types compared with variant allele carriers.

We also obtained data on other factors that might confound the relation of lead exposure and IQ, including child's sex, birth order, birth weight, maternal education, maternal age, marital status, prenatal alcohol exposure, prenatal tobacco exposure, and the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Inventory score.

This begs the question of whether it is critical to adjust for tobacco and alcohol consumption in evaluating relations of lead dose with cardiovascular and cognitive outcomes.

We evaluated whether polymorphisms in three genes (ALAD, VDR, and eNOS) were associated with uric acid or modified relations of lead biomarkers with uric acid in a cross-sectional analysis of data from the first evaluation in a longitudinal study of 798 current and former Korean lead workers.

We analyzed data from 798 lead workers to determine whether polymorphisms in the genes encoding delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD), endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), and the vitamin D receptor (VDR) were associated with or modified relations of lead exposure and dose measures with renal outcomes.

Furthermore, after adjustment for age, the relation of patella lead to blood lead was significantly stronger in the upper two NTx tertiles (beta for patella lead > or =0.125) than in the lowest NTx tertile (beta for patella lead = 0.072).

After adjustment for age and creatinine clearance, the positive relation of patella lead to urinary lead was stronger among subjects in the upper two NTx tertiles (beta for patella lead > or =0.015) than in the lowest NTx tertile (beta for patella lead = 0.008; overall p-value for interactions = 0.06).

The stronger relation of blood lead with G2 compared with TV may reflect either differential sensitivities of genital staging and TV to low-level lead exposure or increased power to detect effects resulting from the higher prevalence of G2, or both.

We also analyzed the relation of blood lead to blood pressure.

The present study is among the first to assess the relation of bone lead levels from a general population sample with measures of renal function.