Nearly one in three students exposed to moderate levels of lead between 10-20 micrograms per deciliter in their blood during their first three years of life were nearly three times as likely to be suspended from school by ages 9-10, compared to students with levels below 5 micrograms. A study of over 3,700 children in Milwaukee found that lead exposure explained 23% of the gap in suspension rates between black and white students. While programs have cleaned up heavily contaminated homes, the city still faces challenges in addressing less obvious sources of lead exposure.
Dimos Polyzois, Professor & Associate Head (Research), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Manitoba, spoke about developing healthy housing standards for Canada's First Nations communities during the CECTalks webcast Moving beyond “low-cost/no-cost” healthy homes programs: The Alaska Experience on May 30. Find out more at http://cec.org/CECTalks
Smog exposure during pregnancy might raise childBest care Lab
Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy and the first year of life might increase the likelihood of developing certain childhood cancers, California researchers say.
Significant Exposure to Mold During Infancy may Increase Respiratory Disease ...Brandon_Crum
Mold, an umbrella term for different types of fungi prevalent in both indoors and outdoors, is usually the result of moisture trapped in a house or building. Apart from compromising the integrity of the structure, it can be harmful to human health.
A Deadly Smoke: Severe Lung Disease Tied To Chemical Found In Flavored e-Ciga...Lisa M. Cannon M.D
People who want to smoke but without the tar or smell turn to electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes. Dubbed as the “future of smoking,” the batterypowered vaporizers simulate the feeling of smoking but without burning tobacco. Instead of cigarette smoke, the user inhales an aerosol.
A Deadly Smoke: Severe Lung Disease Tied To Chemical Found In Flavored e-Ciga...Dr. Lisa Marie Cannon
People who want to smoke but without the tar or smell turn to electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes. Dubbed as the “future of smoking,” the batterypowered vaporizers simulate the feeling of smoking but without burning tobacco. Instead of cigarette smoke, the user inhales an aerosol.
Dimos Polyzois, Professor & Associate Head (Research), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Manitoba, spoke about developing healthy housing standards for Canada's First Nations communities during the CECTalks webcast Moving beyond “low-cost/no-cost” healthy homes programs: The Alaska Experience on May 30. Find out more at http://cec.org/CECTalks
Smog exposure during pregnancy might raise childBest care Lab
Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy and the first year of life might increase the likelihood of developing certain childhood cancers, California researchers say.
Significant Exposure to Mold During Infancy may Increase Respiratory Disease ...Brandon_Crum
Mold, an umbrella term for different types of fungi prevalent in both indoors and outdoors, is usually the result of moisture trapped in a house or building. Apart from compromising the integrity of the structure, it can be harmful to human health.
A Deadly Smoke: Severe Lung Disease Tied To Chemical Found In Flavored e-Ciga...Lisa M. Cannon M.D
People who want to smoke but without the tar or smell turn to electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes. Dubbed as the “future of smoking,” the batterypowered vaporizers simulate the feeling of smoking but without burning tobacco. Instead of cigarette smoke, the user inhales an aerosol.
A Deadly Smoke: Severe Lung Disease Tied To Chemical Found In Flavored e-Ciga...Dr. Lisa Marie Cannon
People who want to smoke but without the tar or smell turn to electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes. Dubbed as the “future of smoking,” the batterypowered vaporizers simulate the feeling of smoking but without burning tobacco. Instead of cigarette smoke, the user inhales an aerosol.
IRJET-An Arrangement for Automatic Notification and Severity Estimation of A...IRJET Journal
Parthiban.p ,Vasanthkumar.ss ,Mohana.J "An Arrangement for Automatic Noti?cation and Severity Estimation of Automotive Accidents", International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET), Volume2,issue-01 April 2015.e-ISSN:2395-0056, p-ISSN:2395-0072. www.irjet.net
Abstract
New contact technologies consolidated into present vehicles proposal an opportunity for larger assistance to people injured in traf?c accidents. Current studies display how contact skills ought to be upheld by arti?cial intellect arrangements capable of automating countless of the decisions to be seized by emergency services, thereby adapting the save time to the severity of the mishap and cutting assistance time. To improve the completed save procedure, a fast and precise estimation of the severity of the mishap embody a key point to aid emergency services larger guesstimate the needed resources. This paper proposes a novel intelligent arrangement that is able to automatically notice road accidents, notify them across vehicular webs, and guesstimate their severity established on the believed of data excavating and vision inference. Our arrangement considers the most relevant variables that can describe the severity of the accidents . Aftermath display that a finished Vision Creation in Databases (KDD) procedure, alongside an adequate selection of relevant features, permits producing estimation models that can forecast the severity of new accidents. We develop a prototype of our arrangement established on off-the-shelf mechanisms and validate it at the Applus+ IDIADA Automotive Scutiny Firm abiilities, showing that our planning can particularly cut the period demanded to alert and use emergency services afterward an mishap seizes place.
By age 18, the lungs of many children who grow up in smoggy ar.docxRAHUL126667
By age 18, the lungs of many children who grow up in smoggy areas are underdeveloped and will likely
never recover, according to a study by Keck School of Medicine researchers in the New England Journal of
Medicine.
Health [/category/health/]
USC study links smoggy air to
lung damage in children
BY Alicia Di Rado [/author/alicia-di-rado/] SEPTEMBER 17, 2004
The research is part of the Children’s Health Study, the longest investigation ever into air
pollution and kids’ health. Between 1993 and 2001, study scientists from the Keck School
tracked levels of major pollutants in 12 Southern California communities while following
the pulmonary health of 1,759 children as they progressed from 4th grade to 12th grade.
The 12 communities included some of the most polluted areas in the greater Los Angeles
basin, as well as several low-pollution sites outside the area.
Keck School researchers previously found that children who were exposed to more air
pollution scored more poorly on respiratory tests. In this latest study, published in the
Sept. 9 issue of the journal, researchers analyzed the same children’s respiratory health at
age 18, when lungs are almost completely mature.
“Teenagers in smoggy communities were nearly five times as likely to have clinically low
lung function, compared to teens living in low-pollution communities,” explained W.
James Gauderman, associate professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School and lead
author of the study.
He said that people with clinically low lung function have less than 80 percent of the lung
function expected for their age�a significant deficit that would raise concerns during a
doctor’s exam.
“When we began the study 10 years ago, we had no idea we would find effects on the lung
this serious,” said John Peters, Hastings Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Keck
School, director of the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center, and
senior author of the study.
https://news.usc.edu/category/health/
https://news.usc.edu/author/alicia-di-rado/
Study technicians traveled to participating schools every year and tested children’s lung
function, a measure of how well their lungs work. As an example, someone with sub-par
lung function cannot exhale and blow up a balloon as quickly or as big as someone with
good lung function.
Researchers correlated the students’ lung health measurements with levels of air
pollutants monitored in the communities during the same time period.
They found greater deficits in lung development in teenagers who lived in communities
with higher average levels of nitrogen dioxide, acid vapor, particulate matter with a
diameter of less than 2.5 micrometers (about a tenth the diameter of a human hair) and
elemental carbon.
“These are pollutants that all derive from vehicle emissions and the combustion of fossil
fuels,” said Gauderman.
Deficits in lung function have both short- and long-term effects. “If a child or young adult
with low lung function were t ...
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6/4/2020 Vaping and COVID-19: Is Now a “Reachable Moment” to Help Your Teen Quit? > Stories at Yale Medicine
https://www.yalemedicine.org/stories/vaping-covid-19/ 1/6
By KATHLEEN RAVEN (MAILTO:[email protected]) APRIL 24, 2020
Vaping and COVID-19: Is Now a
“Reachable Moment” to Help Your
Teen Quit?
Stay-at-home orders amid the pandemic could offer an
opportunity for teens to seek help for nicotine addiction.
Researchers are investigating how vaping might impact the immune system. However, decades
of research have established that “smoking puts you at a greater risk of getting sick if you are
exposed to a respiratory virus," says Yale Medicine pathologist Ellen Foxman, MD, PhD.
Credit: Getty Images
When schools closed this spring to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus
(/stories/2019-novel-coronavirus/), teens faced a stressful new reality: a loss of
school’s daily structure, an upended social life eliminating in-person interactions
with friends, and the specter of falling ill with COVID-19 (/conditions/covid-19/).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified children and
teens as being particularly vulnerable to anxiety related to this pandemic
(/stories/covid-19-anxiety/).
mailto:[email protected]
https://www.yalemedicine.org/stories/2019-novel-coronavirus/
https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/covid-19/
https://www.yalemedicine.org/stories/covid-19-anxiety/
6/4/2020 Vaping and COVID-19: Is Now a “Reachable Moment” to Help Your Teen Quit? > Stories at Yale Medicine
https://www.yalemedicine.org/stories/vaping-covid-19/ 2/6
Without the ability to spend time with friends, play sports, or engage in other
healthy stress-relieving behaviors, many teens don’t know what to do with their
feelings, and some may turn—or return—to vaping. One in 3 high school students
said they used some form of tobacco in 2019, according to the annual National
Youth Tobacco Survey (https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/1205-nyts-
2019.html) (NYTS), and the number of middle-schoolers who use tobacco
products has also been rising. (Both groups preferred e-cigarettes above any other
tobacco products.)
A "reachable moment" for teens with a vaping
addiction
Some doctors think the current COVID-19 pandemic could present a “reachable
moment” where parents can help their children stop vaping, an activity that is so
pervasive among teens that the U.S. Surgeon General has called it an epidemic.
When stay-at-home orders for COVID-19 were first in effect, some parents were
caught off guard by the realization that their child may have a vaping addiction. A
silver lining to the current crisis may be that parents have an opportunity to spend
more time with their teens and help them access the resources they need.
“The coronavirus has brought up a lot of concern,” says Olivia Gladstein, a high
school senior in Wilton, Connecticut. Gladstein volunteers at Trackside
(https://www.trackside.org /), a teen-run organization that promotes .
Liberty UniversityMaster of Public HealthHealth 625Prevent.docxcroysierkathey
Liberty University
Master of Public Health
Health 625
Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases
STUDYING RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN LEPTOSPIROSIS (Kamath R et al.):
AN ARTICLE REVIEW
IMA STUDENT
ID: XOXOXO
November 4, 2014
Words: 951
Article: Kamath R, Swain S, Nair SN, Pattanshetty S. Studying risk factors associated with human Leptospirosis. J Glob Infect Dis.2014; 6(1): 3–9. doi:10.4103/0974-777X.127941.
I. SUMMARY
The article presents the findings of a matched case-control study conducted to identify the occupational and environmental risk factors of Leptospirosis in India. The study was conducted from April 2012 to August 2012 with a total of 70 cases and 140 sex matched controls belonging to the same neighborhoods as cases.
Data collection on occupational and environmental risk factors was achieved through semi-structured questionnaires and researcher observation.
The study revealed that certain occupational and environmental factors were significantly associated with Leptospirosis and were therefore risk factors for this disease. Of all risk factors, the presence of a wound or cut in the skin while working was found to have the strongest association with Leptospirosis. This was followed by contact with soil contaminated with infected rodent urine. Occupations involving outdoor activities were significant risk factors for Leptospirosis compared to those involving indoor tasks. Other significant risk factors were the presence of drainage or sewage within a 15m radius from the home as well as the ingestion of inadequately cooked or raw vegetables with rat bites.
II. ARTICLE REVIEW
This article review examines the research methodology, study findings as well as the limitations of the study. Findings are analyzed using evidence from similar studies and recommendations are provided to address the identified limitations.
Review of Methodology
The case-control approach was used to determine risk factors of Leptospirosis. While this method is not very rigorous compared to other study designs, it is useful in the study of outbreaks and rare or neglected diseases such as Leptospirosis. This method is also appropriate where the small sample size and inadequate resources limit the use of more rigorous designs.
The control of confounders was achieved by matching cases and controls according to gender, age and geographic location. 1 While researchers identified the three main confounders, confounding by religion was not controlled, in fact majority of participants belonged to one religion. This may have been a result of selecting cases and controls from the same neighborhood. Religion may be a risk factor of Leptospirosis especially if it involves rituals or practices where members come in contact with contaminated rivers, water or soil.
Data collection was done through the use of semi-structured questionnaires and researcher observation. 1 While semi-structured questionnaires allow researchers to obtain substantial in ...
Report: About 3 Percent of Utah Children Undergo Lead TestingWilliam_Harris
Sam LeFevre, the overseer of the Utah Department of Health's environmental epidemiology program, says that only around 3 percent of Utah kids undergo testing for lead exposure in any given year. There are around 200,000 children in Utah based on the state's birth rate — and the state tests between 3,000 and 5,000 children annually. This prompted calls for increased monitoring by the American Medical Association and a Utah environmental group.
The Week is an initiative of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint (Lead Paint
Alliance), which is jointly led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and World
Health Organization (WHO). It takes place annually in October. International Lead
Poisoning Prevention Week 2023 takes place from 22-28 October.
The week of action aims to draw attention to the health impacts of lead exposure,
highlight efforts by countries and partners to prevent childhood lead exposure, and
accelerate efforts to phase out the use of lead in paint and paint products in future.
#leadpoisoning
IRJET-An Arrangement for Automatic Notification and Severity Estimation of A...IRJET Journal
Parthiban.p ,Vasanthkumar.ss ,Mohana.J "An Arrangement for Automatic Noti?cation and Severity Estimation of Automotive Accidents", International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET), Volume2,issue-01 April 2015.e-ISSN:2395-0056, p-ISSN:2395-0072. www.irjet.net
Abstract
New contact technologies consolidated into present vehicles proposal an opportunity for larger assistance to people injured in traf?c accidents. Current studies display how contact skills ought to be upheld by arti?cial intellect arrangements capable of automating countless of the decisions to be seized by emergency services, thereby adapting the save time to the severity of the mishap and cutting assistance time. To improve the completed save procedure, a fast and precise estimation of the severity of the mishap embody a key point to aid emergency services larger guesstimate the needed resources. This paper proposes a novel intelligent arrangement that is able to automatically notice road accidents, notify them across vehicular webs, and guesstimate their severity established on the believed of data excavating and vision inference. Our arrangement considers the most relevant variables that can describe the severity of the accidents . Aftermath display that a finished Vision Creation in Databases (KDD) procedure, alongside an adequate selection of relevant features, permits producing estimation models that can forecast the severity of new accidents. We develop a prototype of our arrangement established on off-the-shelf mechanisms and validate it at the Applus+ IDIADA Automotive Scutiny Firm abiilities, showing that our planning can particularly cut the period demanded to alert and use emergency services afterward an mishap seizes place.
By age 18, the lungs of many children who grow up in smoggy ar.docxRAHUL126667
By age 18, the lungs of many children who grow up in smoggy areas are underdeveloped and will likely
never recover, according to a study by Keck School of Medicine researchers in the New England Journal of
Medicine.
Health [/category/health/]
USC study links smoggy air to
lung damage in children
BY Alicia Di Rado [/author/alicia-di-rado/] SEPTEMBER 17, 2004
The research is part of the Children’s Health Study, the longest investigation ever into air
pollution and kids’ health. Between 1993 and 2001, study scientists from the Keck School
tracked levels of major pollutants in 12 Southern California communities while following
the pulmonary health of 1,759 children as they progressed from 4th grade to 12th grade.
The 12 communities included some of the most polluted areas in the greater Los Angeles
basin, as well as several low-pollution sites outside the area.
Keck School researchers previously found that children who were exposed to more air
pollution scored more poorly on respiratory tests. In this latest study, published in the
Sept. 9 issue of the journal, researchers analyzed the same children’s respiratory health at
age 18, when lungs are almost completely mature.
“Teenagers in smoggy communities were nearly five times as likely to have clinically low
lung function, compared to teens living in low-pollution communities,” explained W.
James Gauderman, associate professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School and lead
author of the study.
He said that people with clinically low lung function have less than 80 percent of the lung
function expected for their age�a significant deficit that would raise concerns during a
doctor’s exam.
“When we began the study 10 years ago, we had no idea we would find effects on the lung
this serious,” said John Peters, Hastings Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Keck
School, director of the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center, and
senior author of the study.
https://news.usc.edu/category/health/
https://news.usc.edu/author/alicia-di-rado/
Study technicians traveled to participating schools every year and tested children’s lung
function, a measure of how well their lungs work. As an example, someone with sub-par
lung function cannot exhale and blow up a balloon as quickly or as big as someone with
good lung function.
Researchers correlated the students’ lung health measurements with levels of air
pollutants monitored in the communities during the same time period.
They found greater deficits in lung development in teenagers who lived in communities
with higher average levels of nitrogen dioxide, acid vapor, particulate matter with a
diameter of less than 2.5 micrometers (about a tenth the diameter of a human hair) and
elemental carbon.
“These are pollutants that all derive from vehicle emissions and the combustion of fossil
fuels,” said Gauderman.
Deficits in lung function have both short- and long-term effects. “If a child or young adult
with low lung function were t ...
Staying Safe in a Toxic World - Resources for Healthy Children www.scribd.com/doc/254613619 - For more information, Please see Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children www.scribd.com/doc/254613963 - Gardening with Volcanic Rock Dust www.scribd.com/doc/254613846 - Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech www.scribd.com/doc/254613765 - Free School Gardening Art Posters www.scribd.com/doc/254613694 - Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden www.scribd.com/doc/254609890 - Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success www.scribd.com/doc/254613619 - City Chickens for your Organic School Garden www.scribd.com/doc/254613553 - Huerto Ecológico, Tecnologías Sostenibles, Agricultura Organica www.scribd.com/doc/254613494 - Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide www.scribd.com/doc/254613410 - Free Organic Gardening Publications www.scribd.com/doc/254609890 ~ virginiasolesmith.com
642020 Vaping and COVID-19 Is Now a Reachable Moment” to H.docxssuser774ad41
6/4/2020 Vaping and COVID-19: Is Now a “Reachable Moment” to Help Your Teen Quit? > Stories at Yale Medicine
https://www.yalemedicine.org/stories/vaping-covid-19/ 1/6
By KATHLEEN RAVEN (MAILTO:[email protected]) APRIL 24, 2020
Vaping and COVID-19: Is Now a
“Reachable Moment” to Help Your
Teen Quit?
Stay-at-home orders amid the pandemic could offer an
opportunity for teens to seek help for nicotine addiction.
Researchers are investigating how vaping might impact the immune system. However, decades
of research have established that “smoking puts you at a greater risk of getting sick if you are
exposed to a respiratory virus," says Yale Medicine pathologist Ellen Foxman, MD, PhD.
Credit: Getty Images
When schools closed this spring to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus
(/stories/2019-novel-coronavirus/), teens faced a stressful new reality: a loss of
school’s daily structure, an upended social life eliminating in-person interactions
with friends, and the specter of falling ill with COVID-19 (/conditions/covid-19/).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified children and
teens as being particularly vulnerable to anxiety related to this pandemic
(/stories/covid-19-anxiety/).
mailto:[email protected]
https://www.yalemedicine.org/stories/2019-novel-coronavirus/
https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/covid-19/
https://www.yalemedicine.org/stories/covid-19-anxiety/
6/4/2020 Vaping and COVID-19: Is Now a “Reachable Moment” to Help Your Teen Quit? > Stories at Yale Medicine
https://www.yalemedicine.org/stories/vaping-covid-19/ 2/6
Without the ability to spend time with friends, play sports, or engage in other
healthy stress-relieving behaviors, many teens don’t know what to do with their
feelings, and some may turn—or return—to vaping. One in 3 high school students
said they used some form of tobacco in 2019, according to the annual National
Youth Tobacco Survey (https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/1205-nyts-
2019.html) (NYTS), and the number of middle-schoolers who use tobacco
products has also been rising. (Both groups preferred e-cigarettes above any other
tobacco products.)
A "reachable moment" for teens with a vaping
addiction
Some doctors think the current COVID-19 pandemic could present a “reachable
moment” where parents can help their children stop vaping, an activity that is so
pervasive among teens that the U.S. Surgeon General has called it an epidemic.
When stay-at-home orders for COVID-19 were first in effect, some parents were
caught off guard by the realization that their child may have a vaping addiction. A
silver lining to the current crisis may be that parents have an opportunity to spend
more time with their teens and help them access the resources they need.
“The coronavirus has brought up a lot of concern,” says Olivia Gladstein, a high
school senior in Wilton, Connecticut. Gladstein volunteers at Trackside
(https://www.trackside.org /), a teen-run organization that promotes .
Liberty UniversityMaster of Public HealthHealth 625Prevent.docxcroysierkathey
Liberty University
Master of Public Health
Health 625
Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases
STUDYING RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN LEPTOSPIROSIS (Kamath R et al.):
AN ARTICLE REVIEW
IMA STUDENT
ID: XOXOXO
November 4, 2014
Words: 951
Article: Kamath R, Swain S, Nair SN, Pattanshetty S. Studying risk factors associated with human Leptospirosis. J Glob Infect Dis.2014; 6(1): 3–9. doi:10.4103/0974-777X.127941.
I. SUMMARY
The article presents the findings of a matched case-control study conducted to identify the occupational and environmental risk factors of Leptospirosis in India. The study was conducted from April 2012 to August 2012 with a total of 70 cases and 140 sex matched controls belonging to the same neighborhoods as cases.
Data collection on occupational and environmental risk factors was achieved through semi-structured questionnaires and researcher observation.
The study revealed that certain occupational and environmental factors were significantly associated with Leptospirosis and were therefore risk factors for this disease. Of all risk factors, the presence of a wound or cut in the skin while working was found to have the strongest association with Leptospirosis. This was followed by contact with soil contaminated with infected rodent urine. Occupations involving outdoor activities were significant risk factors for Leptospirosis compared to those involving indoor tasks. Other significant risk factors were the presence of drainage or sewage within a 15m radius from the home as well as the ingestion of inadequately cooked or raw vegetables with rat bites.
II. ARTICLE REVIEW
This article review examines the research methodology, study findings as well as the limitations of the study. Findings are analyzed using evidence from similar studies and recommendations are provided to address the identified limitations.
Review of Methodology
The case-control approach was used to determine risk factors of Leptospirosis. While this method is not very rigorous compared to other study designs, it is useful in the study of outbreaks and rare or neglected diseases such as Leptospirosis. This method is also appropriate where the small sample size and inadequate resources limit the use of more rigorous designs.
The control of confounders was achieved by matching cases and controls according to gender, age and geographic location. 1 While researchers identified the three main confounders, confounding by religion was not controlled, in fact majority of participants belonged to one religion. This may have been a result of selecting cases and controls from the same neighborhood. Religion may be a risk factor of Leptospirosis especially if it involves rituals or practices where members come in contact with contaminated rivers, water or soil.
Data collection was done through the use of semi-structured questionnaires and researcher observation. 1 While semi-structured questionnaires allow researchers to obtain substantial in ...
Report: About 3 Percent of Utah Children Undergo Lead TestingWilliam_Harris
Sam LeFevre, the overseer of the Utah Department of Health's environmental epidemiology program, says that only around 3 percent of Utah kids undergo testing for lead exposure in any given year. There are around 200,000 children in Utah based on the state's birth rate — and the state tests between 3,000 and 5,000 children annually. This prompted calls for increased monitoring by the American Medical Association and a Utah environmental group.
The Week is an initiative of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint (Lead Paint
Alliance), which is jointly led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and World
Health Organization (WHO). It takes place annually in October. International Lead
Poisoning Prevention Week 2023 takes place from 22-28 October.
The week of action aims to draw attention to the health impacts of lead exposure,
highlight efforts by countries and partners to prevent childhood lead exposure, and
accelerate efforts to phase out the use of lead in paint and paint products in future.
#leadpoisoning
East Grand Rapids Dentist: Flouridation Increases Lead Absorption in Childrengj6016
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The Long-Term Effects of Exposure to Low Doses of Lead in Childhood - 1991Marion Sills
Lead in food, particularly in processed food, is a major source of overall lead intake in the entire population. Lead contaminates food through the deposition of airborne lead, the use of lead-bearing water and equipment in processing, the use of lead-based solders in canning, and contact with serving vessels glazed with lead-containing compounds. In 1986, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) attributed most of the contribution to atmospheric deposition (50 percent) and solder (42 percent).1 We have analyzed Food and Drug Administration data from the 1982-1983 and 1984-1985 Total Diet Studies (based on an analysis of market baskets) to ascertain whether solder and other lead sources — for example, gasoline additives — remain important sources of lead in the U.S. food supply. Since the early 1980s, voluntary food-industry programs to replace lead solder were assumed to be sufficient to protect the food supply. However, about 20 percent of domestically filled food cans are still soldered with lead.2
In the United States, the impetus to ban lead additives in motor vehicle fuels has been delayed on the grounds that leaded fuels are important for farm vehicles. Plants grown near highways and other sources of lead are significantly contaminated largely by surface deposition). Despite EPA efforts to phase out leaded gasoline, first- and second-quarter figures for 1988 show that leaded gasoline accounts for nearly 20 percent of the gas sold in the United States.3 The declining use of lead solder and gasoline additives is reflected in reductions of lead contamination in food over the years 1982 through However, the FDA data indicate that these two sources of lead in food are still problems. Of the 234 categories in the 1982-1983 and 1984-1985 market-basket surveys, we found seven pairs for which the only difference was whether or not the foods were canned. Lead levels in the canned samples (Table 1TABLE 1
Lead Levels in Canned and Fresh-Frozen Food.
) were on average more than 29 times higher than those in fresh-frozen samples of the same food in 1982-1983; by 1984-1985 this value had declined to 14. All the pairs fell within the "produce" classification of the U.S. Department of Agriculture; however, we found similar ratios of the average lead levels in canned to those in fresh-frozen food in other USDA categories (Table 2TABLE 2
Average Lead Levels in Canned and Fresh-Frozen Food.
).4
On the basis of the USDA's average daily intake figures for each of the categories shown in Table 2, a person consuming canned products from each category whenever the option existed would have a daily lead intake of 107 and 40 Μg in 1982-1983 and 1984-1985, respectively. For a person who avoided canned foods whenever possible, daily dietary lead intake would have decreased fivefold (from 107 to 26 μg) in 1982-1983 and to less than threefold (40 to 17.4 Μg) in 1984-1985. This illustrates the importance of continuing efforts to reduce the use of lead solde
Most American Children Suffer Dehydration [Study]stellahbarnes12
From medical conditions to the urge to play, as well as internal and external distractions, there are various reasons children struggle with focusing on school-related tasks. Recent research, however, asserts that difficulty in concentration may be due to a physiological problem: dehydration.
1. ,@gtoppo
USATODAY
Scientists have long known that
children with high levels oftoxic lead
in their bloodstream are more likely
than others to behave impulsively,
have shorter attention spans and
lower lQs and do poorly in school
Research out Tuesday finds that
even children with just moderate levels of lead in their first three years of
life are nearly three times as likely to
be suspended from school by the
time they're 9 or 10 as, those whose
blood-lead levels were much lower.
The study, appearing in the journal
Envirorunental Research, analyzed
medical and school discipline records
of 3,763 children in Milwaukee Public Schools.
The federal Centers for DiSease
Control and Prevention last year told
physicians that there's, essentially no
safe level oflead, but the agency previously said that children with 10 to
20 microgramS oflead per deciliter of
blood had enough of the toxin in
their 'systems to present a "level of
concern." 'Children with 5 or fewer
micrograrils of lead were considered
safe, more or less, because the margin of error in measuring blood-lead
levels put themessentially at zero. '
Researchers, led by Michael Amato of the psychology department of
the University of WISconsin-Madison, studied children whose bloodlead levels were between 10 and 20
micrograms and compared them
with children whose levels were be-
Hans Steiner, a professor' ofpsychiatry at Stanford University and an
,attending physician at Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, said
the findings could help schools strugglingwithbehavior problems,including those in Silicon Valley, for whom
he has consulted for years.
''They're fairly sophisticated and
well-funded," Steiner said of schools
in 'California's high-tech corridor,
low 5. Children at the "acute end of "and this would not even occur to
poisoning," with more than 20 mi- them."
crograms, had long been studied, he
In Milwaukee, 'long-standing prosaid, but researchers knewless about grams to, get rid of lead in kids'
those in the moderate range. '
homes have cleaned up the most
Nearly one in three students ex- heavily contaminated sites, but Amaposed to lead had been suspended, to said the city faces a bigger chalcompared withjiIst over one in 10 of lenge cleaning up places that aren't
those not exposed.
so obviously affected.
Lead exposure, the researchers
''There has been quite a lot of imcalculated, explained 23% of the gap provement in Milwaukee over the
in suspension rates between black past 10 years," he said, ''but there is a
and white Milwaukee students.
long way to go."
Researchers studied
children whose
blood-lead leveis were
between 10 and 20
micrograms and.
compar~d them with
children whose levels
~ere below five.
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