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January 2004, Vol 94, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 8-9
© 2004 American Public Health Association

LETTER

HEALTH EFFECTS OF BLOOD LEAD LEVELS LOWER THAN 10 MG/DL IN CHILDREN

Mary Jean Brown, ScD, RN and Patrick J. Meehan, MD, MPH

The authors are with the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Mary Jean Brown, ScD, RN, Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch, Mail Stop F-30, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, Atlanta, GA 30341 (e-mail: mjb5@cdc.gov).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

The thoughtful commentary provided by Bernard1 is a welcome addition to deliberations about whether the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) should respond to recent reports of adverse effects of blood lead levels (BLLs) lower than 10 µg/dL in children by lowering the BLL at which individual intervention is recommended.2,3 The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention is reviewing the scientific evidence of the health effects of BLLs lower than 10 µg/dL in children. A finding of adverse effects across a large number of studies will raise important questions about what changes, if any, the CDC should . . . [Full Text]




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