Lead Exposure Study to Focus on Black Women in Cincinnati - Higher Education

Lead Exposure Study to Focus on Black Women in Cincinnati - Higher Education: With support from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati researchers are launching a study of African-American women to determine whether childhood lead exposure has affected bone and muscle health as the women who will be studied have matured into their early-to-mid-30s.

The research project, which is part of the long-term Cincinnati Lead Study, will involve 120 women who were born in high-lead risk areas of Cincinnati between 1979 and 1984. Involving researchers from the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine, the UC Department of Environmental Health and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, the Cincinnati Lead Study has followed 376 people and is the longest-running study of lead exposure effects on health and development in the world.