Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Perspective on issues
  • Historical background
  • Scope and organization of the committee report
  • Adverse health effects of exposure to lead
  • Clinical intoxication in children
  • Intoxication in adults
  • Reproductive and developmental effects
  • Cardiovascular effects
  • Mechanisms of toxicity
  • Lead exposure of sensitive populations
  • Historical overview of amthropogenic lead contamination
  • Source-specific lead exposure of sensitive populations
  • Biologic markers of lead toxicity
  • Biologic markers of exposure
  • Biologic markers of effect
  • Biologic markers of susceptibility
  • Methods for assessing exposure to lead
  • Sampling and sample handling
  • Measurement of lead in specific tissues
  • Mass spectrometry
  • Atomic-absorption spectrometry
  • Anodic-stripping voltammetry and other electrochemical methods
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
  • Calcium-disodium EDTA provocation test
  • X-ray fluorescence measurement
  • Quality assurance and quality control
  • Sources of lead exposure
  • Adverse health effects of lead
  • Markers of lead exposure and effect.
  • (cont) Techniques to measure lead exposure and early toxic effects.