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Michael Rabinowitz, PhD
Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, Mass

JAMA. 1993;270(7):827.

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To the Editor.

—The recent contribution by Ruff et al¹ demonstrates the benefits from treating lead poisoning with a chelating agent and iron. Ruff et al may have been unaware of a similar situation documented in Taiwan in which a decrease in blood lead level was associated with an improvement in IQ in a group of young children but at even lower lead levels and without medical treatment.²

Children attending a kindergarten adjacent to a lead battery recycling factory were exposed to fugitive lead beginning near age 3 years and lasting for 1 to 2 years, until the kindergarten was closed. In September 1988, 32 children were examined while still exposed, and in March 1991, 2 years after the closing, 28 of them were reexamined. Venous blood lead level was determined and the Simon Binet, Chinese Fourth Edition, was administered along with questionnaires. Also, children from three other . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Edited by Drummond Rennie, MD, Deputy Editor (West), and Margaret A. Winker, MD, Senior Editor.

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