@article{98,
  keywords = {Lead hazard control, Blood lead, Intervention studies, Paint lead, Children, Housing intervention, Lead poisoning prevention},
  author = {Scott Clark and Warren A. Galke and Paul A. Succop and JoAnn Grote and Pat McLaine and Jonathan Wilson and Sherry L. Dixon and William Menrath and Sandy Roda and Mei Chen and Robert Bornschein and David E. Jacobs},
  title = {Effects of HUD-supported lead hazard control interventions in housing on children's blood lead},
  abstract = {The Evaluation of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Grant Program studied the effectiveness of the housing intervention performed in reducing the blood lead of children at four post-intervention times (6-months, 1-year, 2-years, and 3-years). A repeat measures analysis showed that blood lead levels declined up to three-years post-intervention. The results at each successive collection time were significantly lower than at the previous post-intervention time except for the difference between the levels at two and three years. At two-years post-intervention, geometric mean blood lead levels were approximately 37% lower than at pre-intervention. Children with pre-intervention blood lead levels as low as 10 μg/dL experienced substantial declines in blood lead levels. Previous studies have found substantial improvements only if a child's pre-intervention blood lead level was above 20 μg/dL. Individual interior lead hazard control treatments as grouped by Interior Strategy were not a significant predictor of post-intervention blood lead levels. However, children living in dwellings where exterior lead hazard control interventions were done had lower blood lead levels at one-year post-intervention than those living in dwellings without the exterior interventions (all other factors being equal), but those differences were only significant when the mean exterior paint lead loading at pre-intervention was about the 90th percentile (7.0 mg/cm2). This observation suggests that exterior lead hazard control can be an important component of a lead hazard control plan. Children who were six to eleven months of age at pre-intervention had a significant increase in blood lead at one-year post-intervention, probably due to other exposures.},
  year = {2010},
  journal = {Environmental Research},
  volume = {111},
  pages = {301-311},
  month = {12/2010},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935110001842?via%3Dihub#s0035},
  doi = {10.1016/j.envres.2010.11.003},
  language = {English},
}