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• Lead poisoning🔍
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Tracking down a poison: Inside the fight for global action on lead

One study found mean children's blood lead levels well-above the five microgram per decilitre measure for lead-poisoning in low- and middle- ...

Blood Lead Level Testing and Retesting Among Newly Arriving ...

Studies have indicated that children's exposure to lead, even at low levels, can cause intellectual deficits.,. Many low- to middle-income ...

ISEE Call for Action for Global Control of Lead Exposure to Eliminate ...

Acute fatalities in children due to lead poisoning have largely been eliminated in high-income countries but still occur in low- and middle-income countries.

Issue Brief: Childhood Lead Exposure and Educational Outcomes

Lead exposure occurs more frequently in low-income children and children of color and is an important factor in the educational achievement gap between children ...

Lead poisoning - World Health Organization (WHO)

There is no known safe blood lead concentration; even blood lead concentrations as low as 3.5 µg/dL may be associated with decreased ...

High Lead Exposure Associated With Higher Blood Pressure in Haiti

The median age of participants was 40 years and 60.1% were female. The geometric mean blood lead level was 4.73µg/dL, 71.1% had a detectable ...

Half of children in poorer countries have lead poisoning, says study

Urgent action is needed to address the “staggering harm” caused by lead poisoning, mostly in low-income countries where more than half of ...

A new study says the global toll of lead exposure is even ... - NPR

A new study finds that 5.5 million adults worldwide died in 2019 from cardiovascular disease attributable to lead exposure, more than six ...

Recent Federal Actions Spur Changes to Children's Blood Lead ...

Children from low-income families and those living in older housing stock are at greater risk of lead poisoning compared to those living in ...

Eliminating Childhood Lead Poisoning Worldwide - Day One Project

96% of these children live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where collectively ... and other high-income countries, which have seen average blood lead ...

All lead exposures matter - The Lancet Planetary Health

The review also pointed to the absence of testing capacity as the authors were only able to locate reports of blood lead levels in fewer than a third of the 137 ...

Global lead exposure report - Rethink Priorities

A recent systematic review in The Lancet (Ericson et al., 2021) analyzes 478 studies of blood lead levels in low- and middle-income countries.

Study Shows up to 38% of Childhood Lead Poisoning Cases are ...

In 2020, The Toxic Truth report from UNICEF and Pure Earth revealed that around 1 in 3 children – up to 800 million globally – have blood lead ...

Lead batteries blamed for increased blood lead levels in 632M ...

An estimated 632 million children in low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC) are estimated to have a blood lead level exceeding 5 μg/dL; ...

2021 Annual Blood Lead Report | Arizona Department of Health ...

race or ethnicity, household income, immigrant or refugee status, and age of housing. ... Children with blood lead levels at the reference level.

Study: Lead exposure killed more than 5 million people in just ... - Grist

People in low- and middle-income countries, where blood lead levels are higher on average than in high-income countries, were hit hardest.

Lead poisoning - Wikipedia

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US) has set the upper limit for blood lead for adults at 10 μg/dL (10 μg/100 g) and for children at 3.5 μg/dL; ...

Nebraska 2023 Blood Lead Testing Plan - DHHS

All children can be exposed to lead, although children from low-income housing and those who live ... Low Level Lead. Exposure Harms Children: A Renewed ...

EPA International Cooperation on Lead Pollution | US EPA

Over 800 million children globally are affected by lead pollution and exposure, with an estimated one out of every two children in low- and ...

800 million children have high lead levels in their blood

The average blood levels of lead in children from low- and middle-income countries in the UNICEF report are far higher than in Norwegian ...