Public and occupational health risks related to lead exposure updated according to present-day blood lead levels.

ABSTRACT: Lead is an environmental hazard that should be addressed worldwide. Over time, human lead exposure in the western world has decreased drastically to levels comparable to those among humans living in the preindustrial era, who were mainly exposed to natural sources of lead. To re-evaluate the potential health risks associated with present-day lead exposure, a two-pronged approach was applied. First, recently published population metrics describing the adverse health effects associated with lead exposure at the population level were critically assessed. Next, the key results of the Study for Promotion of Health in Recycling Lead (SPHERL; NCT02243904) were summarized and put in perspective with those of the published population metrics. To our knowledge, SPHERL is the first prospective study

SUBMITTER: Yu YL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9899691 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature