The fate of children from Piekary Slaskie with elevated lead concentration in blood
Szymik, E.
Wiadomosci Lekarskie 55(1-2): 72-80
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0043-5147 PMID: 12043319 Document Number: 548070
The aim of this work is to evaluate the influence of the long-term lead-poisoning on children's health, achieved education level and social maturity in their youth and adult life. The work is based on the material collected in the Environmental Health Outpatient Clinic in Piekary Slaskie. The researches were carried out on the base of a questionnaire filled in by adults who had the average lead concentration in blood of 27.4 micrograms/dl +/- 9.8 micrograms/dl when they were 7-15 years old in the period of 1986-1989. All examined subjects were inhabitants of Piekary Slaskie since their birth. The questionnaires were submitted to 90 persons but only 36 responded. There were at the age of 16-26 having the technical, secondary or academic education. Statistical significance was stated only in the field of interdependence between the education level of parents of the surveyed group and the grades achieved by the subjects in primary school. No statistical significance was shown when comparing the lead concentration in blood in children aged 7-15 and education level achieved during next 10 years of their life, their health condition at the age of 16-26 and other parameters. The parents of the surveyed group (with high lead concentration in blood at the age of 7-15) have been the inhabitants of Piekary Slaskie since their birth. Therefore we can make a presumption about the double-generation environmental influence of lead concentration on the grades achieved in primary school by the surveyed persons.