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The National Center for Healthy Housing is a good source for current research on the effects of lead paint poisoning.

Overviews of Lead Poisoning

Binder S, Falk H. Strategic Plan for the Elimination of Childhood Lead Poisoning. Atlanta, Ga: Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services; 1991.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Preventing Lead Poisoning in Young Children. Atlanta, Ga: Dept of Health and Human Services; 1991.

Lanphear BP. The paradox of lead poisoning prevention [published erratum appears in Science 1998 Oct 2; 282(5386):51] [see comments]. Science.281 (5383):1617-8, 1998 Sep 11.

Lanphear BP. Byrd RS. Auinger P. Schaffer SJ. Community characteristics associated with elevated blood lead levels in children. Pediatrics. 101(2):264-71, 1998 Feb. Pub Med ID: 9445502

Needleman HL. Childhood lead poisoning: the promise and abandonment of primary prevention [see comments] [Review] [38 refs] American Journal of Public Health. 88(12):1871-7, 1998 Dec.

Prevention of Lead Poisoning

Lanphear BP. Childhood lead poisoning prevention: too little, too late. May 11, 2005, JAMA (2005;293:2274-2276)

Lanphear BP, Dietrich, KN, Berger, O. Prevention of lead toxicity in U.S. children. Ambul Pediatr. 2003 Jan-Feb; 3 (1):27-36. Abstract

Lead's Effect on IQ

Lead Exposure, IQ, and Behavior in Urban 5- to 7-Year-Olds: Does Lead Affect Behavior Only by Lowering IQ?(pdf), Pediatrics, March 2, 2007

Lanphear, BP. Hornung, R. Khory, J., Yolton, K, et al. Low-Level Envirnonmental Lead Exposure and Children's Intellectual Function: An International Pooled Analysis. Env Hlth Persp. 2005;113:894-899.

Canfield RL, Henderson CR, Cory-Slechta DA, et al. Intellectual impairment in children with blood lead concentrations below 10 mcg per deciliter. N Engl J Med 2003; 348:1517-26. (abstract)

Lanphear BP. Dietrich K. Auinger P. Cox C. Cognitive deficits associated with blood lead concentrations <10 microg/dL in U.S. children and adolescents. Public Health Reports. 115(6):521-9, 2000 Nov-Dec. (abstract) Pub Med ID: 11354334

Soong WT. Chao KY. Jang CS. Wang JD. Long-term effect of increased lead absorption on intelligence of children. Archives of Environmental Health. 54(4):297-301, 1999 Jul-Aug.

Payton M, Riggs KM, Spiro A, Weiss ST, Hu H. Relations of bone and blood lead to cognitive function: the VA Normative Aging Study. Neurotoxicol Teratol. 1998; 20:19-27.

Schwartz J. Low-level lead exposure and children's IQ: a meta-analysis and search for a threshold. Environ Res. 1994; 65:42-55.

Lead's Effect on Children’s Classroom Performance

Braune, J., et al. Exposure to Environmental Toxicants and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity in Children. Enviornmental Health Perspectives (online) . 2006 Dec. Volume 114, Number 12.

Bellinger DC, Stiles KM, Needleman HL. Low-level lead exposure, intelligence, and academic achievement: a long-term follow-up study. Pediatrics. 1992; 90:855-861.

Needleman, HL, Gunnoe, C, Leviton, A et al (1979) Deficits in psychologic and classroom performance in children with elevated dentine lead levels. NEJM 300, 584-695.

Lead's Effect on Juvenile Delinquency & Adult Criminality

Reyes, J. (2007) Environmental Policy as Social Policy? the Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 7: Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 51

Needleman HL, Riess JA, Tobin MJ, Biesecker GE, Greenhouse JB. [see comments]. JAMA 1996; 275(5):363-9.

Needleman HL, McFarland C, Ness RB, Fienberg SE, Tobin MJ. Bone lead levels in adjudicated delinquents–a case control study. Neurotox Teratol. 2002; 24:711-7.

Dietrich KN, Ris MD, Succop PA, Berger OG, Bornschein RL. Early exposure to lead and juvenile delinquency. Neurotox Teratol. 2001; 23:511-8.

Stretescky PB, Lynch MJ. The relationship between lead exposure and homicide. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001; 155:579-82.

Needleman HL, Schell A, Bellinger D, Leviton A, Allred EN. The long-term effects of exposure to low doses of lead in childhood. N Engl J Med. 1990;322:83-8.

Lead's Effect on Children's Brain Development

Goldstein GW. Needleman HL, editors. Human Lead Exposure. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press; 1992; Developmental Neurobiology of Lead Toxicity. p. 125-35.

Patrick GW, Anderson GW. Dendritic Alterations of Cerebellar Purkinje Neurons in Postnatally Lead-Exposed Kittens. Developmental Neuroscience 2000; 22:320-328.

Lead's Effect on Overall Child Development

Getting the Lead Out: The Rhode Island Lead Paint Trials and Their Impact on Children's Health (pdf)
JAMA, June 27, 2007

Davis JM, Svendsgaard DJ. Lead and child development. Nature. 1987; 329:298-300.

Lead During Pregnancy

Gardella C. Lead exposure in pregnancy: a review of the literature and argument for routine prenatal screening. [Review] [51 refs] Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. 56(4):231-8, 2001 Apr.

Gomaa A, Hu H, Bellinger D, Schwartz J, Tsaih SW, Gonzalez-Cossio T, Schnaas L, Peterson K, Aro A, Hernandez-Avila M. Maternal Bone Lead as an Independent Risk Factor for Fetal Neurotoxicity: A Prospective Study, PEDIATRICS Vol. 110 No. 1 July 2002, pp. 110-118. Abstract. Pub Med ID 12093955

Lead and Lactation

Martha María Téllez-Rojo, Mauricio Hernández-Avila, Teresa González-Cossío, Isabelle Romieu, Antonio Aro, Eduardo Palazuelos, Joel Schwartz, and Howard Hu. Impact of Breastfeeding on the Mobilization of Lead from Bone Am J Epidemiol 2002; 155:420-428.

Lead in Bone–A Measure of Cumulative Exposure, and Endogenous Source of Continued Poisoning

Campbell JR, Auinger P. The association between blood lead levels and osteoporosis among adults - Results from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). Env Hlth Persp. 2007;115:1018-1022.

Theppeang K, Glass TA, Bandeen-Roche K, Todd AC, et al. Associations of Bone Mineral Density and Lead Levels in Blood, Tibia, and Patella in Urban-dwelling Women, Environ Health Perspect doi:10.1289/ehp.10977 available via http://dx.doi.org/ [Online 26 February 2008]

Hu H, Milder FL, Burger DE. X-ray fluorescence: issues surrounding the application of a new tool for measuring burden of lead. Environmental Research 1989; 49(2):295-317.

Hu H, Milder FL, Burger DE. X-ray fluorescence measurements of lead burden in subjects with low-level community lead exposure. Archives of Environmental Health 1990; 45(6):335-41.

Hu H, Rabinowitz M, Smith D. Bone lead as a biological marker in epidemiologic studies of chronic toxicity: conceptual paradigms. [Review] [94 refs].[Abstract] Environmental Health Perspectives 1998; 106(1):1-8.
Hu H, Watanabe H, Payton M, Korrick S, Rotnitzky A. The relationship between bone lead and hemoglobin. JAMA 1994; 272(19):1512-7.

H. Hu and M. Hernandez-Avila. Invited Commentary: Lead, Bones, Women, and Pregnancy-–The Poison Within? Am. J. Epidemiol, December 15, 2002; 156(12):1088-1091.

Lead's Contribution to Dental Caries

Moss ME. Lanphear BP. Auinger P. Association of dental caries and blood lead levels [see comments]. JAMA. 281(24):2294-8, 1999 Jun 23-30.

Costs to Society of Continued Childhood Lead Poisoning

Long-term costs of lead poisoning: How much can New York save by stopping lead?, Katrina Korfmacher, PhD, July 2003

Muir T, Zegarac M. Societal costs of exposure to toxic substances: Economic and health costs of four case studies that are candidates for environmental causation. Environ Health Perspect 2001; 109(suppl 6):885-903. Pub Med ID: 11744507

Grosse, Scott D., Matte, Thomas, Schwartz, Joel, and Richard Jackson; Economic Gains Resulting from the Reduction in Children's Exposure to Lead in the United States, Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 110, Number 6 (June 2002)

Salkever, David; Updated Estimates of Earnings Benefits from Reduced Exposure of Children to Environmental Lead, Environmental Research, 70,1-6 (1996).

Schwartz, Joel; Societal Benefits of Reducing Lead Exposure, Environmental Research, 66, 105-124 (1994)

Mechanism of Lead Exposure

Lanphear BP, Weitzman M, Winter N, Lead-contaminated house dust and urban children's blood lead levels. Am J Public Health 1996; 86:1416-1421 [Abstract]

Lanphear BP, Matte TD, Rogers J, The contribution of lead-contaminated house dust and residential soil to children's blood lead levels: a pooled analysis of 12 epidemiologic studies. Environ Res 1998; 79:51-68 [CrossRef][Medline]

Charney E. Sayre J, Coulter M. Increased lead absorption in inner city children: where does the lead come from? Pediatrics 1980;65:226-31.

Vostal JJ, Taves E, Sayre JW, Charney E. Lead Analysis of the House Dust: A Method for the Detection of Another Source of Lead Exposure in Inner City Children, Environ Health Perspect. 1974 May; 7: 91–97.

Interventions-–Screening and Environmental Interventions

Markowitz M. Rosen JF. Clemente I. Clinician follow-up of children screened for lead poisoning. American Journal of Public Health. 89(7):1088-90, 1999 Jul.

Interventions–Dust Control

Korfmacher KS. Dixon S. Reliability of spot test kits for detecting lead in household dust. Environmental Research. 2007 Apr.

Lanphear BP. Howard C. Eberly S. Auinger P. Kolassa J. Weitzman M. Schaffer SJ. Alexander K. Primary prevention of childhood lead exposure: A randomized trial of dust control. Pediatrics. 103(4 Pt 1):772-7, 1999 Apr.

Lanphear BP, Winter NL Apetz L, Eberly S, Weitzman M. A randomized trial of the effect of dust control on children's blood lead levels. Pediatrics, Jul 1996; 98:35-40.

Interventions-–Housing \ Lead-Based Paint Abatement

Farfel MR, Chisholm JJ Jr, Rohde CA. The longer-term effectiveness of residential lead paint abatement Environ Res. 1994; 66:217-221.

Long-term Health Concerns after exposure to lead

Carlos Roncal, Wei Mu, Sirirat Reungjui, Kyung Mee Kim, George N. Henderson, Xiaosen Ouyang, Takahiko Nakagawa, and Richard J. Johnson. Lead, at low levels, accelerates arteriolopathy and tubulointerstitial injury in chronic kidney disease. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol, Oct 2007; 293: F1391-F1396.