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Are 1 in 6 deaths in the USA due to lead exposure?
The Lancet article (April 2018) finds:
of 2.3 million deaths every year in the USA, about 400 000 are attributable to lead exposure
Contrary to another answer, the article says:
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Has lead poisoning in kids in St. Louis (Mo.) decreased since 2001?
There is quantitative data in Childhood Lead Poisoning
in
The City of St. Louis for every year from 1971 through 2009.
Using a 10 micrograms per deciliter standard, the fraction of children testing ...
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Has lead poisoning in kids in St. Louis (Mo.) decreased since 2001?
You ask two questions. @DavePhD addressed the first one. The second is also answerable from the same data source. The total number of children tested was 11,260 in 2000 and 13,522 in 2009. This is ...
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