Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
; 119(11): e2118631119, 2022 03 15.
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ABSTRACT
SignificanceConsiderable effort is expended to protect today's children from lead exposure, but there is little evidence on the harms past lead exposures continue to hold for yesterday's children, who are victims of what we term legacy lead exposures. We estimate that over 170 million Americans alive today were exposed to high-lead levels in early childhood, several million of whom were exposed to five-plus times the current reference level. Our estimates allow future work to plan for the health needs of these Americans and to inform estimation of the true contributions of lead exposure to population health. We estimate population-level effects on IQ loss and find that lead is responsible for the loss of 824,097,690 IQ points as of 2015.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Exposición a Riesgos Ambientales
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Plomo
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Intoxicación por Plomo
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Screening_studies
Límite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Año:
2022
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Article