Chronic, low-level lead poisoning is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease in adults and cognitive deficits in children, even at levels previously thought to be safe, according to a paper by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Simon Fraser University in Canada, and Harvard Medical School, and Boston Children's Hospital.

In children, exposure is responsible for an annual loss of some 765 million IQ points in children globally. Low-level lead poisoning is a risk factor for adults, which can result in chronic kidney failure, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. Lead accounted for 5.5 million deaths annually from cardiovascular disease.

  • Fern@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 days ago

    Some lesser known sources of lead exposure.

    • Gunfire (sounds like a joke, but when you fire a gun it puts lead particles in the air like second hand smoke)

    • eggs (especially backyard eggs)

    • bone broth

    • wild game (because of you guessed it, the lead bullets that killed them)

    • C126@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      5 days ago

      I believe those are lessesr known because they contain such insignificant quantities, unless your backyard soil is heavily contaminated.