These factors should be considered when evaluating the potential for harmful lead exposures from a given field.
Contact your health care provider or department of public health if you suspect possible low-level lead exposure.
In adults, chronic lead exposure can cause headaches, digestive distress and depression.
They immunized children and tested them for lead exposure.
She compared the results to some of the damage cause by low-level lead exposure.
The officials emphasized that school water fountains probably account for only a small part of the lead exposure that youngsters face.
Scientists carrying out the research concluded that no child born into the modern world can be considered immune from the effects of low-level lead exposure.
In the US, 14-20% of total lead exposure is attributed to drinking water.
It was not until the second half of the 20th century that subclinical lead exposure became understood to be a problem.
"There is no conclusive scientific evidence at this point of a risk to fetuses from the father's lead exposure."