Measuring Lead Effects Blood and Bone Together Are Better

By United Nations

Book Id: WPLBN0000193567
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Measuring Lead Effects Blood and Bone Together Are Better
Author:	United Nations
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, United Nations., United Nations. Office for Disarmament Affairs
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Disarmament Documents
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Publisher:	United Nations- Office for Disarmament Affairs (Unoda)


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Excerpt: Many studies have reported impaired renal function and kidney disease at high levels of lead exposure, as estimated mainly through concentrations of serum creatinine (SCr) and rates of creatinine clearance from the body. However, lower-level lead exposure has not been correlated with renal effects as conclusively, perhaps because blood lead reflects relatively recent exposure, and therefore is not an adequate measure of total body burden. This month, Shirng-Wern Tsaih of the Harvard School of Public Health and her colleagues report that blood lead levels alone may not be enough to determine whether kidney effects are occurring at low exposure; lead levels in bone also need to be determined [EHP 112:1178?1182]. The Tsaih study is among the first to assess the relationship between lowlevel bone and blood lead levels and measures of kidney function in a general population sample.