Article 5WVT0 Half of US adults were exposed to harmful lead levels as kids, study finds

Half of US adults were exposed to harmful lead levels as kids, study finds

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Researcher calls findings infuriating' as team finds significant impact on cognitive development

Over 170 million Americans who were adults in 2015 were exposed to harmful levels of lead as children, a new study estimates.

Researchers used blood-lead level, census and leaded gasoline consumption data to examine how widespread early childhood lead exposure was in the country between 1940 and 2015.

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