At high levels, lead in the blood of a pregnant woman can
lead to a miscarriage or premature birth and at lower levels it can hold back the development of an unborn baby's nervous system and brain.
LEAD LEADING LIVES TO DANGERS
A 1984 EPA study estimated that reduction of
lead to 0.1 gram per gallon could save car owners as much as $660 million annually in auto maintenance costs.
Regulations that work
The relationship of bone and blood
lead to hypertension--the normative aging study.
A critical review of biomarkers used for monitoring human exposure to lead: advantages, limitations, and future needs
The critical challenge in applying this approach is the characterization of the isotopic composition of the end members contributing
lead to blood (e.g., external sources and the skeleton).
A noninvasive isotopic approach to estimate the bone lead contribution to blood in children: implications for assessing the efficacy of lead abatement
In that case, one would expect more
lead to slip past the kidneys and into the bloodstream, Kim says.
...And autoimmune diseases
Both alleles were positively associated with decreased bone lead concentrations, and neither affected the relationship of blood or bone
lead to ALS.
ALS and lead: the polymorphism possibility
However, child advocates point out that this ignores the fact that lead was left in exterior paint for another 25 years, and that exterior paint still posed a threat, by both being used indoors and adding
lead to outdoor soil.
The lead effect? (Focus)
They found that women who never had children -- and therefore never shed significant bone and bone-bound
lead to developing offspring -- carry far more lead into old age than those who had been pregnant.
Blood-lead climbs as old bones decline
Several Mexican folk remedies use
lead to treat common ailments--like empacho, constipation thought to be caused by eating a food at the wrong time, or by making children eat foods they don't like.
A cure that's worse than the ailment
These results cannot quantitatively account for the rate of addition of
lead to wine in contact with the bathtub, but they indicate that the powdered surface of the bathtub was a source of large quantities of lead.
Lead Poisoning from Homemade Wine: A Case Study
It's unlikely that exposure to lead would automatically
lead to taking drugs because various sociocultural and psychologic factors are involved in the initiation of drug use, Bardo says.
Leading to Drug Abuse
The treatment of acute lead toxicity with intravenous EDTA, as used in this case, remains the standard method for managing lead toxicity; the addition of British anti-Lewisite (BAL or dimercaprol) is recommended at very high levels of exposure (i.e., blood lead levels [is greater than] 100 [micro]g/dL) to avoid exacerbation of central nervous system toxicity that may result from transient redistribution of
lead to the brain during EDTA chelation.
Poorly Controlled Hypertension in a Painter with Chronic Lead Toxicity
These cases illustrate the utility of the lead isotope method to identify main source(s) of lead exposure to the child; discard unlikely sources of exposure to the child; point to sources of
lead to dust; and substantiate or refine the environmental assessment based exclusively on lead concentrations and loadings.
Lead Isotopes as a Supplementary Tool in the Routine Evaluation of Household Lead Hazards
Appendix B7, Conditions Required for A Source of
Lead to be a Hazard.
Lead Loading of Urban Streets by Motor Vehicle Wheel Weights
The scientists chose these young children because they are most susceptible to the deleterious effects of lead poisoning; in addition, their hand-to-mouth activities can
lead to ingestion of lead-contaminated dust, and they spend up to eight hours per day in the classrooms.
Grading Lead in Schools