Home Energy-Efficiency Retrofits
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Environmental Health Perspectives • volume 119 | number 7 | July 2011 A 283 acquiesced to that point in a reply to the first of several letters to the editor by Brondum (2007) on the same topic. However, Braun et al. (2007) noted that including such information is not always possible when, for example, the use of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data or other constraints on study design do not allow it. Although we agree that failure to control for parental psycho pathology is a weakness in many of the published studies reporting an association between childhood lead exposure and a diagnosis of ADHD, we believe that the consistency of the association across several published studies using different study designs adds to the weight of evidence that this is a real association and not a spurious effect due to uncontrolled confounding. We hope that this reply clarifies the goals of our review for those faced with the challenge of assessing the neuro behavioral effects of emerging contaminants and their possible contribution to the pheno typic expression of ADHD or other neuro developmental disorders. The authors declare they have no actual or potential competing financial interests.
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