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more_legal_areas lead_exposureThroughout the years, lead has been removed from gasoline, residential paint and solder used for food cans and water pipes, but according to lead poisoning statistics, the metal continues to pose hazardous risks. Lead is neurotoxic and especially harmful to developing nervous systems of fetuses and young children. Very high levels of blood lead levels can cause severe neurologic problems, including seizure, coma and death. There is still an absence of specific lead poisoning statistics indicating the threshold on lead''s harmful effects on children''s learning and behavior.
According to lead poisoning statistics, severe cases of lead poisoning are rare today. Over the years, the amount of lead found in everyday items has been reduced after discovering how serious the effects of exposure are to humans. Lead is no longer found in a high number of products, yet lead poisoning statistics show that childhood lead poisoning is considered the most preventable environmental disease of young children. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention lead poisoning statistics show an estimated 890,000 U.S. children ages one to five have elevated blood lead levels.
The primary source of lead exposure among children is from lead-based paint and lead-contaminated dust and soil that are found in and around old, deteriorating buildings. Since lead does not naturally breakdown, in order to remove risk the lead must be taken out of the source. Lead poisoning statistics indicate the number of families residing in housing still containing a high percentage of lead in the paint to be substantial, with more than one-fifth of African American children living in housing built before 1946 found to have elevated blood lead levels.
Despite the older homes still containing paint with dangerous amounts of lead in it housing both adults and children, the lead poisoning statistics show children are the most affected. Children are much more susceptible to the dangers of lead because they have not yet fully developed. In addition, children are much more likely to play on the ground, transferring dust containing lead, and frequently put their hands into their mouths, allowing lead ingestion to occur.
Lead poisoning statistics show there are still a high number of people adversely affected by the metal''s harmful effects, but these lead poisoning statistics may not even be a real indicator of how serious the problem is. During the 1960s, 60 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood was considered the level for concern. In the 1980s, this level was lowered even more to 25 micrograms, then to 10 micrograms in the 1990s. An April 2003 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine included an article concluding lead levels even below the 10 micrograms can be harmful, especially in children. The researchers wrote, “Our findings suggest that considerably more U.S. children are adversely affected by environmental lead than previously estimated.”
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has created a national goal to eliminate childhood lead poisoning in the country by 2010. The decline in the number of adversely affected lead poisoning statistics has been encouraging, but some experts worry the extent of the lead exposure problem has not yet been fully uncovered and understood. For more information on lead poisoning statistics, please contact us to confer with an attorney.
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