Environmental exposure to lead and children's intelligence at the age of seven years. The Port Pirie Cohort Study.

PubWeight™: 5.49‹?› | Rank: Top 1%

🔗 View Article (PMID 1383818)

Published in N Engl J Med on October 29, 1992

Authors

P A Baghurst1, A J McMichael, N R Wigg, G V Vimpani, E F Robertson, R J Roberts, S L Tong

Author Affiliations

1: CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition, Adelaide, Australia.

Articles citing this

Intellectual impairment in children with blood lead concentrations below 10 microg per deciliter. N Engl J Med (2003) 16.73

Low-level environmental lead exposure and children's intellectual function: an international pooled analysis. Environ Health Perspect (2005) 10.66

Cognitive deficits associated with blood lead concentrations <10 microg/dL in US children and adolescents. Public Health Rep (2001) 6.12

Environmental lead and children's intelligence: a systematic review of the epidemiological evidence. BMJ (1994) 5.55

Lead exposure and intelligence in 7-year-old children: the Yugoslavia Prospective Study. Environ Health Perspect (1997) 2.88

Blood lead concentrations < 10 microg/dL and child intelligence at 6 years of age. Environ Health Perspect (2008) 2.81

Lifetime exposure to environmental lead and children's intelligence at 11-13 years: the Port Pirie cohort study. BMJ (1996) 2.67

Reduced intellectual development in children with prenatal lead exposure. Environ Health Perspect (2006) 2.37

Recent developments in low-level lead exposure and intellectual impairment in children. Environ Health Perspect (2004) 2.37

Lead-contaminated house dust and urban children's blood lead levels. Am J Public Health (1996) 2.16

The Yugoslavia Prospective Study of environmental lead exposure. Environ Health Perspect (1999) 2.10

A review on the importance of metals and metalloids in atmospheric dust and aerosol from mining operations. Sci Total Environ (2012) 1.95

Clinical and subclinical deficits at 8 years in a geographically defined cohort of low birthweight infants. Arch Dis Child (1994) 1.85

Low-level human equivalent gestational lead exposure produces sex-specific motor and coordination abnormalities and late-onset obesity in year-old mice. Environ Health Perspect (2008) 1.84

A biomonitoring study of lead, cadmium, and mercury in the blood of New York city adults. Environ Health Perspect (2007) 1.79

Neurotoxic effects and biomarkers of lead exposure: a review. Rev Environ Health (2009) 1.74

Fluctuating asymmetry and psychometric intelligence. Proc Biol Sci (1997) 1.59

Elevated blood lead levels of children in Guiyu, an electronic waste recycling town in China. Environ Health Perspect (2007) 1.42

Lead exposure, IQ, and behavior in urban 5- to 7-year-olds: does lead affect behavior only by lowering IQ? Pediatrics (2007) 1.36

Lead sources, behaviors, and socioeconomic factors in relation to blood lead of native american and white children: a community-based assessment of a former mining area. Environ Health Perspect (2002) 1.34

Protecting children from environmental toxins. PLoS Med (2005) 1.23

The important health impact of where a child lives: neighborhood characteristics and the burden of lead poisoning. Matern Child Health J (2011) 1.21

The relationship between mental retardation and developmental delays in children and the levels of arsenic, mercury and lead in soil samples taken near their mother's residence during pregnancy. Int J Hyg Environ Health (2010) 1.13

Relationships among blood lead levels, iron deficiency, and cognitive development in two-year-old children. Environ Health Perspect (1996) 1.13

Testing the dose-response specification in epidemiology: public health and policy consequences for lead. Environ Health Perspect (2005) 1.11

Probability of intellectual disability is associated with soil concentrations of arsenic and lead. Chemosphere (2011) 1.10

Altered myelination and axonal integrity in adults with childhood lead exposure: a diffusion tensor imaging study. Neurotoxicology (2009) 1.09

Biomedical communication and the reaction to the Queensland childhood lead poisoning cases elsewhere in the world. Med Hist (1999) 1.08

Behavioral effects of lead: commonalities between experimental and epidemiologic data. Environ Health Perspect (1996) 1.08

Low level environmental lead exposure--a continuing challenge. Clin Biochem Rev (2008) 1.06

Neurotoxicity of lead, methylmercury, and PCBs in relation to the Great Lakes. Environ Health Perspect (1995) 1.01

Early life programming as a target for prevention of child and adolescent mental disorders. BMC Med (2014) 1.00

Validation of K-XRF bone lead measurement in young adults. Environ Health Perspect (1995) 0.98

Behavioral toxicology. Environ Health Perspect (1995) 0.97

Blood lead levels of contemporary Japanese children. Environ Health Prev Med (2011) 0.96

The influence of age of lead exposure on adult gray matter volume. Neurotoxicology (2010) 0.95

Blood lead testing by pediatricians: practice, attitudes, and demographics. Am J Public Health (1997) 0.94

A randomized trial of education to prevent lead burden in children at high risk for lead exposure: efficacy as measured by blood lead monitoring. Environ Health Perspect (2003) 0.93

Cognitive development and low-level lead exposure in poly-drug exposed children. Neurotoxicol Teratol (2009) 0.93

Integrated defense system overlaps as a disease model: with examples for multiple chemical sensitivity. Environ Health Perspect (1998) 0.92

Factors influencing the difference between maternal and cord blood lead. Occup Environ Med (2005) 0.90

Developmental origins of adult diseases and neurotoxicity: epidemiological and experimental studies. Neurotoxicology (2012) 0.89

Impact of chronic lead exposure on selected biological markers. Indian J Clin Biochem (2011) 0.87

A Bayesian semiparametric approach with change points for spatial ordinal data. Stat Methods Med Res (2012) 0.87

Assessment of lead exposure in schoolchildren from Jakarta. Environ Health Perspect (1998) 0.87

Air pollution and health. BMJ (1995) 0.87

Semiparametric modeling of age at achieving developmental milestones after prenatal exposure to methylmercury in the Seychelles child development study. Environ Health Perspect (1998) 0.87

Increased blood lead and decreased calcium levels during pregnancy: a prospective study of Swedish women living near a smelter. Am J Public Health (1996) 0.86

The effect of interior lead hazard controls on children's blood lead concentrations: a systematic evaluation. Environ Health Perspect (2002) 0.85

Clinical lead poisoning in England: an analysis of routine sources of data. Occup Environ Med (1999) 0.85

Lead exposure and educational proficiency: moderate lead exposure and educational proficiency on end-of-grade examinations. Ann Epidemiol (2012) 0.83

Size-resolved dust and aerosol contaminants associated with copper and lead smelting emissions: implications for emission management and human health. Sci Total Environ (2014) 0.82

Blood lead concentrations and children's behavioral and emotional problems: a cohort study. JAMA Pediatr (2014) 0.81

Trends in blood lead levels among children enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children from 1996 to 2000. Am J Public Health (2004) 0.81

Low-level lead exposure triggers neuronal apoptosis in the developing mouse brain. Neurotoxicol Teratol (2011) 0.80

Are different soil metals near the homes of pregnant women associated with mild and severe intellectual disability in children? Dev Med Child Neurol (2014) 0.79

When are fetuses and young children most susceptible to soil metal concentrations of arsenic, lead and mercury? Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol (2012) 0.79

Early-life lead exposure recapitulates the selective loss of parvalbumin-positive GABAergic interneurons and subcortical dopamine system hyperactivity present in schizophrenia. Transl Psychiatry (2015) 0.79

Prenatal chemical exposures and child language development. J Commun Disord (2015) 0.78

Trials and tribulations of protecting children from environmental hazards. Environ Health Perspect (2006) 0.78

Exposure to lead in childhood. The importance of prevention. N Engl J Med (1992) 0.78

Lead exposure in adult males in urban Transvaal Province, South Africa during the apartheid era. PLoS One (2013) 0.78

Lead poisoning from an unexpected source in a 4-month-old infant. Environ Health Perspect (1998) 0.77

Longitudinal Intergenerational Birth Cohort Designs: A Systematic Review of Australian and New Zealand Studies. PLoS One (2016) 0.77

E-waste management: as a challenge to public health in India. Indian J Community Med (2010) 0.77

Emerging aspects of assessing lead poisoning in childhood. Emerg Health Threats J (2009) 0.77

Zinc to prevent lead poisoning. CMAJ (1996) 0.76

Chronic Lead Exposure and Mixed Factors of Gender×Age×Brain Regions Interactions on Dendrite Growth, Spine Maturity and NDR Kinase. PLoS One (2015) 0.76

Blood lead levels in children. CMAJ (1993) 0.76

Fetal lead exposure: Encephalopathy in a child. Indian J Clin Biochem (2002) 0.76

Nutritive potential of some 'edible' soils in Blantyre city, Malawi. Malawi Med J (2011) 0.76

Counseling to prevent childhood lead poisoning. J Natl Med Assoc (1996) 0.76

Does n-3 LCPUFA supplementation during pregnancy increase the IQ of children at school age? Follow-up of a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open (2016) 0.75

Blood lead levels in relation to paint and dust lead levels: the lead-safe cambridge program. Am J Public Health (2001) 0.75

Prenatal and early postnatal lead exposure in mice: neuroimaging findings. Quant Imaging Med Surg (2015) 0.75

Environmental and Occupational Lead Exposure Among Children in Cairo, Egypt: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study. Medicine (Baltimore) (2016) 0.75

The conundrum of unmeasured confounding: Comment on: "Can some of the detrimental neurodevelopmental effects attributed to lead be due to pesticides? by Brian Gulson". Sci Total Environ (2008) 0.75

Elevated Blood Lead Levels Are Associated with Reduced Risk of Malaria in Beninese Infants. PLoS One (2016) 0.75

An examination of knowledge, attitudes and practices related to lead exposure in South Western Nigeria. BMC Public Health (2006) 0.75

Effect of environmental factors on intelligence quotient of children. Ind Psychiatry J (2017) 0.75

Lead poisoning among opium users in Iran: an emerging health hazard. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy (2017) 0.75

Articles by these authors

The sequence of the human genome. Science (2001) 101.55

A specific endonuclease from Arthrobacter luteus. J Mol Biol (1976) 25.89

Phenotypic analysis of antigen-specific T lymphocytes. Science (1996) 24.26

The epitopes of influenza nucleoprotein recognized by cytotoxic T lymphocytes can be defined with short synthetic peptides. Cell (1986) 14.96

Computer programs for the assembly of DNA sequences. Nucleic Acids Res (1979) 13.36

Restriction endonucleases. CRC Crit Rev Biochem (1976) 13.22

Late escape from an immunodominant cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response associated with progression to AIDS. Nat Med (1997) 12.26

Quantitation of HIV-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes and plasma load of viral RNA. Science (1998) 12.05

An amazing sequence arrangement at the 5' ends of adenovirus 2 messenger RNA. Cell (1977) 9.44

Common west African HLA antigens are associated with protection from severe malaria. Nature (1991) 9.43

Steps toward computer analysis of nucleotide sequences. Science (1980) 8.73

HhaI methyltransferase flips its target base out of the DNA helix. Cell (1994) 8.72

Cytotoxic T-cell immunity to influenza. N Engl J Med (1983) 8.49

Skewed maturation of memory HIV-specific CD8 T lymphocytes. Nature (2001) 7.90

Predictive motifs derived from cytosine methyltransferases. Nucleic Acids Res (1989) 7.63

Bias due to misclassification in the estimation of relative risk. Am J Epidemiol (1977) 7.28

HLA-E binds to natural killer cell receptors CD94/NKG2A, B and C. Nature (1998) 7.12

Clustered mutations in HIV-1 gag are consistently required for escape from HLA-B27-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses. J Exp Med (2001) 6.51

Standardized mortality ratios and the "healthy worker effect": Scratching beneath the surface. J Occup Med (1976) 6.40

A second specific endonuclease from Haemophilus aegyptius. J Mol Biol (1975) 6.36

Rapid effector function in CD8+ memory T cells. J Exp Med (1997) 6.36

Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer--collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 58,515 women with breast cancer and 95,067 women without the disease. Br J Cancer (2002) 5.83

HIV-specific CD8(+) T cells produce antiviral cytokines but are impaired in cytolytic function. J Exp Med (2000) 5.79

Nucleotide sequences from the adenovirus-2 genome. J Biol Chem (1982) 5.76

HIV-1 gag-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes defined with recombinant vaccinia virus and synthetic peptides. Nature (1988) 5.45

Direct visualization of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells during the primary immune response to Epstein-Barr virus In vivo. J Exp Med (1998) 5.33

A human thymocyte antigen defined by a hybrid myeloma monoclonal antibody. Eur J Immunol (1979) 5.17

Homing endonucleases: keeping the house in order. Nucleic Acids Res (1997) 5.03

Port Pirie Cohort Study: environmental exposure to lead and children's abilities at the age of four years. N Engl J Med (1988) 4.50

Potential impact of global climate change on malaria risk. Environ Health Perspect (1995) 4.44

Cytotoxic T cell recognition of the influenza nucleoprotein and hemagglutinin expressed in transfected mouse L cells. Cell (1984) 3.97

Crystal structure of the HhaI DNA methyltransferase complexed with S-adenosyl-L-methionine. Cell (1993) 3.96

Large clonal expansions of CD8+ T cells in acute infectious mononucleosis. Nat Med (1996) 3.94

Agarose slab-gel electrophoresis equipment. Anal Biochem (1975) 3.88

Cleavage maps of DNA from adenovirus types 2 and 5 by restriction endonucleases EcoRI and HpaI. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol (1975) 3.87

Decay kinetics of human immunodeficiency virus-specific effector cytotoxic T lymphocytes after combination antiretroviral therapy. J Virol (1999) 3.79

Nucleotide sequence analysis of the leader segments in a cloned copy of adenovirus 2 fiber mRNA. Cell (1979) 3.78

Excess mortality in England and Wales, and in Greater London, during the 1995 heatwave. J Epidemiol Community Health (1998) 3.67

Two sequence-specific endonucleases from Moraxella bovis. J Mol Biol (1977) 3.65

The DNA (cytosine-5) methyltransferases. Nucleic Acids Res (1994) 3.58

Restriction and modification enzymes and their recognition sequences. Nucleic Acids Res (1985) 3.53

Cytotoxic T cell responses to multiple conserved HIV epitopes in HIV-resistant prostitutes in Nairobi. J Clin Invest (1998) 3.53

Recombinant human DNA (cytosine-5) methyltransferase. I. Expression, purification, and comparison of de novo and maintenance methylation. J Biol Chem (1999) 3.40

A re-evaluation of the frequency of CD8+ T cells specific for EBV in healthy virus carriers. J Immunol (1999) 3.36

One predominant 5'-undecanucleotide in adenovirus 2 late messenger RNAs. Cell (1977) 3.30

Surface expression of HLA-E, an inhibitor of natural killer cells, enhanced by human cytomegalovirus gpUL40. Science (2000) 3.20

AdoMet-dependent methylation, DNA methyltransferases and base flipping. Nucleic Acids Res (2001) 3.16

A human lymphocyte-associated antigen involved in cell-mediated lympholysis. Eur J Immunol (1983) 3.08

Novel, cross-restricted, conserved, and immunodominant cytotoxic T lymphocyte epitopes in slow progressors in HIV type 1 infection. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses (1996) 3.01

Cold machine perfusion versus static cold storage of kidneys donated after cardiac death: a UK multicenter randomized controlled trial. Am J Transplant (2010) 2.97

Effective induction of simian immunodeficiency virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes in macaques by using a multiepitope gene and DNA prime-modified vaccinia virus Ankara boost vaccination regimen. J Virol (1999) 2.95

Ecological study of reasons for sharp decline in mortality from ischaemic heart disease in Poland since 1991. BMJ (1998) 2.94

A specific endonuclease from Haemophilus haemolyticus. J Mol Biol (1976) 2.92

Extensive conservation of alpha and beta chains of the human T-cell antigen receptor recognizing HLA-A2 and influenza A matrix peptide. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1991) 2.90

HLA restriction of cell-mediated lysis of influenza virus-infected human cells. Nature (1977) 2.88

Cytotoxic T-cell recognition of HIV proteins and peptides. AIDS (1991) 2.83

A recombinant vaccinia virus based ELISPOT assay detects high frequencies of Pol-specific CD8 T cells in HIV-1-positive individuals. AIDS (1999) 2.75

High frequency of memory and effector gag specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes in HIV seropositive individuals. Int Immunol (1990) 2.71

Early effects of climate change: do they include changes in vector-borne disease? Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2001) 2.71

HIV-1-specific mucosal CD8+ lymphocyte responses in the cervix of HIV-1-resistant prostitutes in Nairobi. J Immunol (2000) 2.69

The nucleotide sequences at the termini of adenovirus-2 DNA. J Mol Biol (1979) 2.68

Direct ex vivo analysis of hepatitis B virus-specific CD8(+) T cells associated with the control of infection. Gastroenterology (1999) 2.62

Recognition sequence of specific endonuclease BamH.I from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens H. Nature (1977) 2.59

Nucleotide sequence of the BsuRI restriction-modification system. Nucleic Acids Res (1985) 2.59

Restriction and modification enzymes and their recognition sequences. Nucleic Acids Res (1983) 2.59

Restriction and modification enzymes and their recognition sequences. Nucleic Acids Res (1980) 2.56

A monoclonal antibody that recognizes an antigenic determinant shared by HLA A2 and B17. Hum Immunol (1980) 2.56

Functional analysis of putative restriction-modification system genes in the Helicobacter pylori J99 genome. Nucleic Acids Res (2000) 2.48

Misconceptions about the use of genetic tests in populations. Lancet (2001) 2.48

Environment and health: 2. Global climate change and health. CMAJ (2000) 2.45

A semi-automated method for the reading of nucleic acid sequencing gels. Nucleic Acids Res (1982) 2.44

Prevalence of severe growth hormone deficiency. Br Med J (1977) 2.43

Nobel laureates' letter to President Bush. Washington Post (2001) 2.43

Crystal structure of the complex between human CD8alpha(alpha) and HLA-A2. Nature (1997) 2.41

Influenza virus-specific cytotoxic T cells in man; induction and properties of the cytotoxic cell. Eur J Immunol (1978) 2.39

Different functional domains of the adenovirus E1A gene are involved in regulation of host cell cycle products. Mol Cell Biol (1987) 2.38

Patterns of immunodominance in HIV-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses in two human histocompatibility leukocyte antigens (HLA)-identical siblings with HLA-A*0201 are influenced by epitope mutation. J Exp Med (1997) 2.38

Declining T-cell immunity to influenza, 1977-82. Lancet (1983) 2.34

An epidemiologic study of mortality within a cohort of rubber workers, 1964-72. J Occup Med (1974) 2.33

A computer assisted method for the determination of restriction enzyme recognifion sites. Nucleic Acids Res (1978) 2.32

Persistent high frequency of human immunodeficiency virus-specific cytotoxic T cells in peripheral blood of infected donors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1995) 2.30

Induction of AIDS virus-specific CTL activity in fresh, unstimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes from rhesus macaques vaccinated with a DNA prime/modified vaccinia virus Ankara boost regimen. J Immunol (2000) 2.29

Mortality among rubber workers: Relationship to specific jobs. J Occup Med (1976) 2.27

Acetaminophen elimination kinetics in neonates, children, and adults. Clin Pharmacol Ther (1976) 2.24

PubMed Central: The GenBank of the published literature. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2001) 2.20

CD8(+) T-cell selection, function, and death in the primary immune response in vivo. J Clin Invest (2000) 2.19

A specific endonuclease from Bacillus caldolyticus. Nucleic Acids Res (1978) 2.18

Reproduction, endogenous and exogenous sex hormones, and colon cancer: a review and hypothesis. J Natl Cancer Inst (1980) 2.17

Recognition of influenza A virus nucleoprotein by human cytotoxic T lymphocytes. J Gen Virol (1986) 2.16

Lytic and transforming functions of individual products of the adenovirus E1A gene. J Virol (1986) 2.14

Oligoclonal expansions of CD8(+) T cells in chronic HIV infection are antigen specific. J Exp Med (1998) 2.13

Two restriction-like enzymes from Xanthomonas malvacearum. J Mol Biol (1977) 2.11

Assessing ecosystem health. Trends Ecol Evol (1998) 2.11

HLA B37 determines an influenza A virus nucleoprotein epitope recognized by cytotoxic T lymphocytes. J Exp Med (1986) 2.09

Sun exposure and vitamin D are independent risk factors for CNS demyelination. Neurology (2011) 2.04

Restriction and modification enzymes and their recognition sequences. Gene (1978) 2.02

Oxygen toxicity in neonatal and adult animals of various species. J Appl Physiol Respir Environ Exerc Physiol (1978) 2.00