Global health burden and cost of lead exposure in children and adults

IQ loss in LMICs was nearly 80% higher than a previous estimate. Cardiovascular disease deaths were six times higher than the GBD 2019 estimate.

The global cost of lead exposure was US$6·0 trillion (range 2·6-9·0) in 2019, which was equivalent to 6·9% (3·1-10·4) of the global gross ...

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Lead poisoning costs world's children 765 million IQ points a year

“In contrast to the decline in the rate of coronary heart disease in industrialized countries, the rate has increased over the past 30 years in ...

Lead Poisoning: Impacts and Sources - Pure Earth

According to the 2023 paper, Global health burden and cost of lead exposure in children and adults: a health impact and economic modelling analysis, in low- and ...

Global health burden and cost of lead exposure in children and adults

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Lead Exposure Still a Global Health Burden - Medscape

Globally, lead exposure is linked to more than 5.5 million adult cardiovascular deaths in 2019, as well as loss of 765 million intelligence ...

Global lead exposure greater CVD risk factor than smoking ... - Healio

Modeling data suggest more than 5.5 million adults worldwide died of CVD due to lead exposure in 2019. More than 90% of those deaths ...

a health impact and economic modelling analysis - The Lancet

Global health burden and cost of lead exposure in children and adults: a health impact and economic modelling analysis. Bjorn Larsen, MBA, Ernesto Sánchez ...

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The global cost of lead exposure in 2019 was estimated to be US$6 trillion, equivalent to 7% of global GDP. In LMICs, it was equivalent to more ...

Trends in global burden of diseases attributable to lead exposure in ...

For example, approximately 60% of children with confirmed elevated blood lead levels were non-Hispanic black in the United States from 1997 to 2001 (39).

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

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A Call to Action to End Childhood Lead Poisoning Worldwide

The World Bank calculates the cost of this burden to be equivalent to $4.6 trillion, or 5.3 percent of global GDP. Childhood lead exposure has a ...

Saving tens of millions of children a year from the effects of lead ...

Funding to help nations eliminate lead paint and other sources of exposure would avert millions of deaths and one trillion dollars a year in ...

Our children's future: a call to end childhood lead poisoning

It is well-established that even minimal exposure can lead to lifelong developmental and health issues, making the eradication of lead exposure ...

Patterns of global burden of 13 diseases attributable to lead ...

From 1990 to 2019, the number of deaths and DALYs resulting from lead exposure increased by 70.19% and 35.26%, respectively; however, the ASMR ...

Global lead exposure report - Rethink Priorities

Lead exposure is a large problem with social costs on the order of $5-10 trillion annually, most of which come through neurological damages ...

1 in 3 Children Suffer from Lead Poisoning—so Why is Lead ...

Lead is not an equal opportunity poison—94 percent of the disease burden (i.e., years of healthy life lost) from lead exposure occurs in low- ...

Lead Pollution - Our World in Data

Lead poisoning is estimated to account for about 1% of the global disease burden. ... Rate of disease burden from lead exposure · Share ... costs of childhood lead ...

Chronic Effects of Lead Pose Long-Term Risks for Adults

Estimates of lives lost worldwide each year to lead exposure range from 1.5 million to a staggering 5.5 million, largely due to its devastating ...