{"id":22090,"date":"2023-11-20T14:23:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T19:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22090"},"modified":"2023-11-20T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T19:23:04","slug":"a-new-study-says-the-global-toll-of-lead-exposure-is-even-worse-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22090","title":{"rendered":"A new study says the global toll of lead exposure is even worse than we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Nicole Estvanik Taylor on November 20, 2023 for NPR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the World Health Organization&#8217;s list of\u00a010 chemicals of major public health concerns, lead is a familiar villain. The toxic metal contaminates air, soil, water and food, and builds up inside bodies over time. Its most widely publicized health impact is neurological damage in children, often measured in the loss of intelligence quotient (IQ) points. But lead&#8217;s pernicious effects don&#8217;t stop in childhood nor at the brain. Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2023\/11\/20\/1213841798\/a-new-study-says-the-global-toll-of-lead-exposure-is-even-worse-than-we-thought\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nicole Estvanik Taylor on November 20, 2023 for NPR On the World Health Organization&#8217;s list of\u00a010 chemicals of major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22091,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22090\/revisions\/22091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}