Delayed visual maturation and lead pollution

Brian L. Gulson; Leslie Ah Yui; Donald Howarth

doi:10.1016/S0048-9697(98)00349-0

Delayed visual maturation and lead pollution

Brian L. Gulson^*, Leslie Ah Yui, Donald Howarth

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Abstract

Three children were born in the Broken Hill Australia lead mining community with delayed visual maturation of the optic nerve (blindness) within a period of 19 months. Because of the association with the lead pollution, the delayed visual maturation was attributed to lead exposure of the fetus during pregnancy. Lead isotopic analyses of the shed deciduous teeth from the three children demonstrate that they were not exposed to increased levels of lead from a mining or any other source during pregnancy and the etiology of the delayed visual maturation must be sought elsewhere. Copyright (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	215-219
Number of pages	5
Journal	Science of the Total Environment
Volume	224
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0048-9697(98)00349-0
Publication status	Published - 11 Dec 1998

Keywords

Blindness
Infants
Lead isotopes
Lead mining
Teeth

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