Tajikistan & Pollution Health and Economic Impacts Average % of Deaths from Pollution High-Income Countries 7.3% Upper-Middle-Income Countries 10.3% Lower-Middle-Income Countries 14.7% Low-Income Countries 19.2% The Lancet Commission on pollution and health provides data related to the health and economic
If you read REALNEO, you know the huge burden of lead poisoning on our region's children and adults, the community's quality of life, and our education system and economy, and you know that, since May, East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer has been planning to work with Motley Rice to bring litigation over lead poisoning to Ohio courts.
Mechanism identified through which lead may harm neural cells, childrenâs neurodevelopment
For immediate release: August 26, 2016
Boston, MA â Researchers have identified a potential molecular mechanism through which lead, a pervasive environmental toxin, may harm neural stem cells and neurodevelopment in children. The study, from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, suggests that lead exposure can lead to oxidative stressâa process that can change cell behavior and has been linked with health problemsâamong certain proteins within neural stem cells.
Lead (Pb) is a teratogen that poses health risks after acute and chronic exposure. Lead is deposited in the bones of adults and is continuously leached into the blood for decades. While this chronic lead exposure can have detrimental effects on adults such as high blood pressure and kidney damage, developing fetuses and young children are particularly vulnerable. During pregnancy, bone-deposited lead is released into the blood at increased rates and can cross the placental barrier, exposing the embryo to the toxin.
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