Reduced Intellectual Development in Children with Prenatal Lead Exposure | Zendy

Lourdes Schnaas | Zendy; Stephen J. Rothenberg | Zendy; María-Fernanda Flores | Zendy; Sandra Martı́nez | Zendy; Carmen Méndez-Hernández | Zendy; Erica Osorio | Zendy; Silvia RuizVelasco | Zendy; Estela Perroni | Zendy

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Reduced Intellectual Development in Children with Prenatal Lead Exposure

Author(s) -

Lourdes Schnaas,

Stephen J. Rothenberg,

María-Fernanda Flores,

Sandra Martı́nez,

Carmen Méndez-Hernández,

Erica Osorio,

Silvia RuizVelasco,

Estela Perroni

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.8552

Subject(s) - confidence interval , pregnancy , medicine , intelligence quotient , cohort , gestation , wechsler adult intelligence scale , pediatrics , lead exposure , cohort study , psychiatry , biology , cats , genetics , cognition

Low-level postnatal lead exposure is associated with poor intellectual development in children, although effects of prenatal exposure are less well studied. We hypothesized that prenatal lead exposure would have a more powerful and lasting impact on child development than postnatal exposure.

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